Kala-azar in Qadisiah : A clinicoepidemiological descriptive study

• Main Authors: Mohammed mojar Al-Shamsi, Rahman Kareem mohsin, Assad Habeeb Abdullah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Medicine University of Baghdad 2008-07-01
• Series: مجلة كلية الطب
• Subjects: Kala-azar in Qadisiah
• Online Access: http://iqjmc.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/19JFacMedBaghdad36/article/view/1282

Subject and Method : study involved sixty five children with kala-azar who were admitted to the maternity and children teaching hospital in Diwaniah during a one year period , 1999. The clinical and epidemiological criteria of the disease were discussed. The majority of these patients were under the age of 5 years ( 97% ) and were from rural areas ( 86% ) Result : The symptoms and signs of the disease were fever (100% ), splenomegaly (100% ), anaemia ( 100% ), hepatomegaly ( 92% ), anorexia ( 62% ), bleeding tendency ( 46% ) and jaundice ( 31% ). Our patients had high incidence of bleeding tendency , jaundice , edema and relatively high mortality in comparison with patients elsewhere