TY - JOUR AU - Abdul RehmanSiyal , Fouzia Sheikh , MunwarAbbasi , Sumair Memon , Abdul RehmanSiyal , Fouzia Sheikh , MunwarAbbasi , Sumair Memon PY - 2019/05/02 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Haematological Pattern of Children with Malaria Attending Paediatric OPD at Tertiary Care Hospital JF - Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College JA - JRMC VL - 23 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://journalrmc.com/index.php/JRMC/article/view/1111 SP - AB - <p>Objective: To determine the haematological <br>pattern among children attending Paediatric <br>OPD with diagnosis of malaria at tertiary care <br>Hospital <br>Methods: In this observational study children <br>with diagnosis of malaria, age of &lt;12 years and <br>either of gender were enrolled. Each patient <br>underwent clinical examination and medical history <br>regarding duration of fever including <br>sign/symptoms and previous antimalarial treatment <br>history. Three ml blood was collected from all the <br>patients for the complete blood count (CBC) The <br>haematological abnormalities were recorded. Entire <br>data was gathered and filled in the profrorma and its <br>analysis was done by SPSS version 16.0. <br>Results: Total 106 children were selected .Mean age <br>was 5.31+2.47 years. Malarial infection was higher <br>among male children 67(63.20%). Vivax parasite was <br>most common among (53.80%),falciparum in 45.30%, <br>while both parasites were found only in one case. <br>Mean platelet count was 96.35+74.34 in children <br>infected by falciparum malaria and 89.05+70.0 in <br>vivax infected children (p-value=0.815). Mean <br>haemoglobin level was 9.43+0.91 in falciparum <br>malaria and 9.38+0.90 in vivax infection(p-value= <br>0.477). Mean WBC level was 5.81+1.35 in falciparum <br>infected children and 6.06+1.41 in vivax infected <br>children( p-value=0.614). There was no significant <br>difference in haemoglobin and WBC according to <br>parasites p-values were insignificant. <br>Conclusion: Plasmodium vivax was the <br>commonest parasite; male children remained on <br>high risk of malarial transmission. Haematological <br>changes markedly appeared but statistically <br>insignificant according to falciparum and vivax.</p> ER -