Prediction of outcome of severe falciparum malaria in Kolhapurin western India: A hospitalbased study
Journal Title: PARIPEX-Indian Journal of Research - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Background and Objectives: A hospital-based study was conducted to elucidate the different severe clinical presentations of falciparum malaria and to examine the critical clinical and laboratory parameters on the prognosis of these severe manifestations Materials and Methods: Continuous and normal distributed data were compared by two-tailed Student’s t-test and proportions compared withχ2 tests with Yates’ correction or Fisher’s exact test. Results and Discussion: A total of 1320 patients with clinical malaria, diagnosed at outpatients’ department were admitted in the hospital during the 1 year study period of which, 292 (22.1%) were children under 14 years of age. The major clinical categories on admission were hyperpyrexia (70.7%), cerebral malaria (9.4%), malarial anemia (7.7%), algid malaria (1.5%), and malaria associated categories were respiratory infection (2.2%), hepatitis (2.0%), urinary tract infection (1.8%), enteric fever (3.3%), and sickle cell disease (1.2%).
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Ashwinkumar Waghmode, Pranay Gandhi
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