Severe falciparum malaria.
Indian J Pediatr
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2004 Feb; 71(2): 133-5
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-83615
ABSTRACT
Falciparum malaria affect all ages with multiple-systemic complications which varies in different age group. We studied 242 children with complicated Falciparum malaria with a median age of 6.5 years to look for occurrence of different complications in younger and older age groups and overall mortality picture. Unarousable coma (40.5%), severe anemia (26.03%), repeated seizures (46.2%) and hepatopathy (32.2%) were commonest complications. Under five children had higher risk of development of cerebral malaria (P<0.01), severe anemia (P<0.05) and seizures (P<0.001); whereas above five children had higher risk of acute renal failure (P<0.05) and malarial hepatopathy (P<0.02). Over all mortality was 9.9%, cerebral malaria being the commonest cause (6.6%). Multi-system involvement was seen in 58.4% cases of death. Children having pulmonary edema, shock and cerebral malaria had high case fatality rate.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Child
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Child, Preschool
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Prospective Studies
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Adolescent
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Age Factors
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Malaria, Falciparum
Type of study:
Observational study
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Risk factors
Language:
English
Journal:
Indian J Pediatr
Year:
2004
Type:
Article
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