Study of renal dysfunction in Malaria
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: Prevalence of acute renal failure (ARF) in ma An upsurge in the incidence of ARF in malaria also has been reported in Ind To study the requency, clini hospital based observational study 119 cases of fever who were positive for malarial antigen on Histidine rich protein (HRP) and or who has peripheral smear positive foe ARF according to RIFLE criteria and were observed for clinical profile, complications, and in hospital outcome. Out of 119 cases of malaria studied 40 cases (33.61%) had ARF. Males o 2:1). Anemia was the most common complication cerebral malaria, hypotension, algid malaria, ARDS, black water fever, hypoglycemia, and DIC were signifi falciparum malaria than vivax malaria (p<0.05). Mortality in malaria with ARF was found to be significantly more (11.00% vs.1.27%) (p <0.001). can prevent the mortality and morbidity
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Chavan M S, Raut S, Vishwakarma R R
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