%0 Journal Article
%T Malaria en ni os: factores cl赤nico-epidemiol車gicos, pacientes internados en Hospital de Sunyani, Ghana. 2006 Malaria in children: epidemiological and clinical factors, the patients entered in Hospital of Sunyani. Ghana 2006
%A Mercedes Arrieta Zulueta
%A Dalia Antonia Portal Portal
%J Revista Habanera de Ciencias Mˋˋdicas
%D 2010
%I Ministerio de Salud Publica
%X Se realiz車 un estudio observacional descriptivo retrospectivo de 385 casos con diagn車stico cl赤nico y bioqu赤mico de malaria, ingresados en el Hospital de Sunyani, Ghana, en el 2006, con el objetivo de identificar factores cl赤nico_epidemiol車gicos atendiendo a: sexo, grupo et芍reo, caracter赤sticas cl赤nicas, enfermedades asociadas, complicaciones y principales causas de muerte. Hubo predominio del sexo masculino con un pico de incidencia en el grupo et芍reo de 1-4 a os, siendo las principales manifestaciones cl赤nicas: fiebre, palidez, debilidad, v車mitos, p谷rdida del apetito, convulsi車n, diarreas, tos, alteraci車n de la conciencia y falta de aire. El 74.36 % de los casos presentaban desnutrici車n, siendo la anemia severa la mayor complicaci車n. La meningitis junto a la septicemia fueron las principales patolog赤as asociadas a la mortalidad. La malaria constituye una importante causa de morbimortalidad infantil en Ghana. It was carried out a descriptive retrospective longitudinal study of 385 cases with clinical and biological diagnosis of malaria, entered in the Hospital of Sunyani, Ghana, in the year 2006, with the objective of identify clinical and epidemiologists features attending to: sex, age group, clinical characteristics, associate illness, complications and principals causes of death. Outputs: There was prevalence of the masculine sex with a pick in the group of 1-4 years having like principal clinical manifestations: fever, paleness, weakness, vomits, loss of the appetite, fit, diarrhoea, cough, alteration of the conscience and lacking in air. The 74.36% of the cases introduced malnutrition, being the severe anaemia the most complication. The meningitis associates to the septicaemia were the principal causes of death .Conclusions: the malaria constitutes an important cause of infantile morbimortality in Ghana.
%K Malaria
%K Desnutrici車n
%K Morbimortalidad.
%K Malaria
%K Malnutrition
%K Morbimortality.
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