Clinical Assessment of Fever With Thrombocyto...

Clinical Assessment of Fever With Thrombocytopenia- A Prospective Study

Author Name : Dr. Vijay Charhate, Dr. Deepak Warkade

ABSTRACT

Fever is a pervasive and ubiquitous theme in human myth, art and science. Fever is such a common manifestation of illness that it is not surprising to find accurate descriptions of the febrile patients in early-recorded history.   

Though thrombocytopenia is encountered in various diseases, it is for sure that potentially fatal bleeding due to thrombocytopenia is rare. The causes of thrombocytopenia are impaired platelet production, accelerated platelet destruction or dilution and/or splenic sequestration.

Thrombocytopenia is defined as platelet count <1,50,000/µL. This is due to decreased production, increased destruction (immunogenic and non-immunogenic), and increased sequestration in spleen. Of these infections being the commonest cause of thrombocytopenia.

Infections like dengue, leptospirosis, malaria, typhoid, military TB, HIV, septicaemia are some of the common causes of fever with thrombocytopenia.

Timely recognition and treatment of the underlying condition, platelet transfusion is required to prevent fatal outcomes. Hence a need for study to clinically assess the fever with thrombocytopenia. The objective of the study was to evaluate the clinical profile of patient with fever and thrombocytopenia attending NetajiSubhash Chandra Bose medical college, Jabalpur.

Keywords-Fevar, Thrombocytopenia, Platelets, Clinical Study