Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 4

A Retrospective Study of Changing Clinical Pattern of Malaria in Western UP, India

  • Author:
  • Subhash Chandra1, Yogesh Kumar Goel2, Daya Chand3, Deepak Gupta4
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 38 to 40

1Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medical Science &Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. India.

2Assistant Professor, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences Hapur, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. India.

3Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences Hapur, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. India.

4Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences Hapur, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. India.

Online published on 19 November, 2012.

Abstract

The incidence of malaria is on the rise in western UP, India in the recent years and there is not much information on malaria from this region. This study was under taken to analyze and introspect the presentation of this disease in a tertiary referral centre.

This retrospective case analysis was done on patients between the age group of 2–15 years admitted with diagnosis of malaria to the Pediatrics Department of SIMS, Hapur and School of Medical Science & Research, Greater Noida, U.P. India.The records from April 2010 to March 2012 were retrieved and scrutinized using a prepared case sheet Performa on the basis of patient's demographic profile, clinical findings, investigations, treatment and complications.

A total of 343 patients were diagnosed and treated for malaria, out of them, males (62.68%) outnumbered females (37.32%) and many were below the age of 7 years (69.05%). Plasmodium vivax was the major parasite (68.51%), followed by P. falciparum (20.99%), and mixed malarial infection (10.49%).Fever was the most common symptom observing 96.2% cases and thrombocytopenia was the commonest lab hematological abnormality seen in 46.6% cases of plasmodium vivax.

Malaria is a common disease but severe and complicated vivax malaria is an emerging recognized clinical entity and challenges the perception of vivax malaria as a benign disease.

Keywords

Cerebral, Complications, Malaria, Plasmodium vivax, Thrombocytopenia