DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i04.046

Pages: 1588-1594

Malaria continues to be a huge social, economic and health problem, particularly in the tropical countries. It still remains today as it has been for centuries, one of the most serious parasitic diseases of the world affecting 300-500 million people and causing over 1 million deaths each year. This prospective study was conducted to study the incidence of malaria, incidence & severity of thrombocytopenia in various types of malaria and how thrombocytopenia is associated with the severity of malaria. Total 145 cases of malaria, admitted in the Medicine Department between June 2012 to Oct. 2013 were studied. Patients were evaluated for the various clinical presentations as per a predefined proforma. Incidence of malaria in relation with age, sex, clinical features, types of species of malaria, baseline hematological profile of subjects with malaria in relation with various species of malaria, incidence of thrombocytopenia and its severity in relation with various species of malaria & how thrombocytopenia is associated with the severity of malaria was observed. In this study we found that Patients among reproductive age group are affected more than others, severe thrombocytopenia is seen more commonly with P. falciparum as compared to P. vivax and the patients having severe thrombocytopenia are more likely to have complicated malaria as compared to moderate and mild cases.