A Study on Different Common Laboratory Parameters among Malaria Cases at Alluri Sita Ramaraju Academy of Medical Sciences, Eluru, and Andhra Pradesh

Malaria continues to be a major health problem in some of the most populated areas of the world, under developing countries continues to cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. The hematological abnormalities that have been reported to consistently with malaria are anemia, thrombocytopenia, atypical lymphocytosis and infrequently disseminated intravascular coagulation.

1. To study the demographic profile of malaria cases. 2. To find the laboratory parameters abnormality among the Malaria cases.

The present Hospital based descriptive study was conducted at Alluri Sita Ramaraju Academy of Medical Sciences, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, during the period from January 2014 to December 2014 by retrospectively. A total of 68 individuals were selected from the hospital records based on the full details available in the case sheet. Results were analysed and necessary statistical tests were applied.

Out of 68 individuals, 43 were males and 25 were females. Out of 68 Malaria cases, there was 77.9% (53/68) patients were having haemoglobin < 12 gm/dl and remaining 15 patients were having haemoglobin > 12 gm/dl (P<0.05). About 47% (32/68) malaria cases were having platelet count < 1,00,000/cmm. Of which, 8.8% (6/68) were having 10,000-20,000 low platelet count range. Only 53% of malaria cases were having normal range of platelets. There was statistically significant association was found between different grades of packed cell volume and sex (P<0.05).

Based on the above study results, anaemia was identified as a common complication in malaria cases. In addition to that, platelet count was decreased not only in dengue fevers but also in malaria cases. Maximum numbers of patients tend to develop acute renal failure showing high blood urea and high creatinine levels. Our sample is less and there are many studies required for the support of our study.