Afebrile Malaria. | [Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal • 2018]

Author(s):

1. Qayas Ahmad: Combined Military Hospital Mangla Pakistan

2. Muhammad Aatif: Combined Military Hospital Mangla Pakistan

3. Amina Akbar: Combined Military Hospital Mangla Pakistan

Abstract:

Objective: To study the presentations of afebrile malaria with respect to febrile malaria. Study Design: Cross sectional descriptive. Place and Duration of Study: Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Mangla Cantt, from Jan 2015 to Jan 2017. Material and Methods: A retrospective cross sectional descriptive study was conducted on patients received at CMH Mangla during the study period. Permission from the ethical committee of hospital was obtained for the study. Malaria was diagnosed by exam of peripheral blood film slide on Leishman,s stain. Typing of the parasite was done using ICT immunochromatographic strip test. All consecutively advised malarial parasite (MP) tests on febrile and afebrile patients were included in the study. All repeated MP test on the same patients were excluded from the study. No co-incidental/asymptomatic case was diagnosed or included in the study. Results: A total of 5372 MP tests of patients were advised out of which total 1120 cases were reported positive for malaria infection during above study period. A total of 205 cases of suspected afebrile malarial patients were advised MP test. Out of which 116 cases of afebrile malaria were confirmed at Lab. The percentage ratio of total positive MP test was 21%. The ratio of positive febrile to afebrile total MP positive cases was 10:1. Among 116 afebrile patients the presentations were refractory anemia in 42 cases, elevated ALT in 35 cases, thrombocytopenia in 3 cases, & jaundice in 8 cases. All presentations of afebrile malarial patients were normalized after antimalarial treatment. Data were analyzed in excel. Descriptive statistics was applied on qualitative variables. Frequency and percentage documented. Conclusion: Malaria without fever is a statistically significant cause of morbidity among patients. Although simple to diagnose and easy to treat, omission of lab diagnosis leads to accumulation of untreated cases of afebrile malaria who are advised expensive and time wasting investigations burdening the Medicare system.

Page(s): 261-264

DOI: DOI not available

Published: Journal: Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, Volume: 68, Issue: 2, Year: 2018

Keywords:

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