Table 6 Clinical course and complications experienced during hospital admission in probable severe malaria patients for only those aged 0 to 15 years (n=130)
Neg | Pf | Pv | Pf+Pv | Not recorded | Total | Died | OR (95% CI) | p-value* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | n | (%) | n | (%) | |||||||
Prostration | 51 | 65 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 130 | (78) | 13 | (10) | 3.8 (0.5, 29.9) | 0.31 |
Impaired consciousness | 51 | 65 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 130 | (78) | 13 | (10) | 3.9 (0.5, 30.8) | 0.31 |
Multiple convulsion | 3 | 83 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 100 | (60) | 1 | (1) | 2.9 (0.3, 27.4) | 0.36 |
Severe anaemia | 36 | 51 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 97 | (58) | 10 | (10) | 1.4 (0.4, 4.8) | 0.77 |
Respiratory distress | 26 | 34 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 70 | (42) | 11 | (16) | 8.7 (1.9, 40.5) | 0 |
Hyperparasitaemia | 1 | 33 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 41 | (25) | 1 | (2) | 0.2 (0.03, 1.6) | 0.12 |
Frequent vomiting | 14 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 37 | (22) | 1 | (3) | 0.2 (0.03, 2.0) | 0.2 |
Abdominal bleeding | 12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | (13) | 3 | (14) | 2.0 (0.5, 7.7) | 0.4 |
Circulatory collapse | 8 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 19 | (11) | 10 | (53) | 186 (30.4, 1143) | 0** |
Jaundice | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | (6) | 2 | (20) | 3.0 (0.6, 15.8) | 0.2 |
Macroscopic haemoglobinuria | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | (2) | 1 | (33) | 5.7 (0.5, 66.6) | 0.24 |
Pulmonary oedema | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | (1) | 0 | (0) | 1.0 (1.0, 1.1) | 1 |
Renal failure | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | (0) | 0 | (0) | - | - |
Hypoglycaemia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | (0) | 0 | (0) | - | - |