Pemeriksaan Albumin pada Penderita Tuberkulosis Paru di Rumah Sakit Umum Martha Friska Multatuli Medan

Abstract

Martha Friska Multatuli Medan Hospital is a hospital that receives many outpatients and inpatients, one of them is Lung Tuberculosis. Pulmonary tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium mycobacterium tuberculosis. Who reports 3 million people die from pulmonary tuberculosis every year and affects people in their productive age. Indonesia ranks third with 583,000 people (Naga, 2012). The purpose of this study was to determine the level of albumin in pulmonary tuberculosis patients who were treated in the streets and hospitalized in Martha Friska Multatuli Medan hospital. This research was conducted at the Martha Friska Multatuli Field Hospital Pathology Laboratory in September-October 2017. Beginning with blood sampling, serum was obtained and serum analysis test was performed to determine albumin levels. The results obtained in this study that 40 patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis consisting of men and women obtained the results of 35 patients (88%) had low albumin levels and as many as 5 patients (12%) had normal serum albumin levels.