Factors associated with severe anaemia in Zambian children admitted with Plasmodium falciparum malarial anaemia.
Modest Mulenga;
Phidelis Malunga;
Steve Bennett;
Philip E Thuma;
Caroline Shulman;
Katherine Fielding 
;
Brian M Greenwood ;
(2005)
Factors associated with severe anaemia in Zambian children admitted with Plasmodium falciparum malarial anaemia.
Annals of tropical paediatrics, 25 (2).
pp. 87-90.
ISSN 0272-4936
DOI: 10.1179/146532805X45674
;
Brian M Greenwood ;
(2005)
Factors associated with severe anaemia in Zambian children admitted with Plasmodium falciparum malarial anaemia.
Annals of tropical paediatrics, 25 (2).
pp. 87-90.
ISSN 0272-4936
DOI: 10.1179/146532805X45674
Many cases of severe malarial anaemia are clinically stable, but some can deteriorate rapidly. In a cross-sectional survey of 255 children with clinically stable malarial anaemia, 72 had severe anaemia (PCV < or = 15%) and 183 were moderately anaemic (PCV < 15-21%). Being female, or febrile, or a referral and having low parasitaemia or hepatomegaly were the risk factors for severe anaemia.
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