AIM: To evaluate the number of platelets and the title of anti-platelet antibodies IgG Ac-PI (by flow cytometry) in patients with non-complicated malaria. METHODS: Descriptive, prospective and longitudinal study from 45 patients (aged among 14-67). Thirty patients were followed during 7 days. RESULTS: A) Pretreatment: it was found malarial thrombocytopenia (MT) in 71 % and significant association between MT and Ac-PI in 33 %. MT was not associated to residence zone, to have had malaria in the last year and Plasmodium species but sex associated (males, p= 0.02078195), although, the Ac-PI titers of male and female was similar. Correspondingly, the number of platelets was statistically similar to the values of above variables. There was a low and an inverse lineal correlation between platelets and titres of Ac-P1 (r= -0.342 (p= 0.02310)). B) During the following, multiple linear regression among platelets, age, years of residence in the zone, number of malaria episodes in the last year, parasitaemia (logarithmically expressed) and Ac-P1 titers showed no significant coefficient and the maximum explanation achieved (17%) was parasitaemia and Ac-P1 titers. Similar analysis among Ac-P1 and age, years of residence in the zone number of malaria episodes in the last year, parasitaemia (logarithmically expressed) showed that the first three explain 38 % of the changes in Ac-P1, whereas malaria episodes and years of residence in the zone explain 28%.
AIM: To evaluate the number of platelets and the title of anti-platelet antibodies IgG Ac-PI (by flow cytometry) in patients with non-complicated malaria. METHODS: Descriptive, prospective and longitudinal study from 45 patients (aged among 14-67). Thirty patients were followed during 7 days. RESULTS: A) Pretreatment: it was found malarial thrombocytopenia (MT) in 71 % and significant association between MT and Ac-PI in 33 %. MT was not associated to residence zone, to have had malaria in the last year and Plasmodium species but sex associated (males, p= 0.02078195), although, the Ac-PI titers of male and female was similar. Correspondingly, the number of platelets was statistically similar to the values of above variables. There was a low and an inverse lineal correlation between platelets and titres of Ac-P1 (r= -0.342 (p= 0.02310)). B) During the following, multiple linear regression among platelets, age, years of residence in the zone, number of malaria episodes in the last year, parasitaemia (logarithmically expressed) and Ac-P1 titers showed no significant coefficient and the maximum explanation achieved (17%) was parasitaemia and Ac-P1 titers. Similar analysis among Ac-P1 and age, years of residence in the zone number of malaria episodes in the last year, parasitaemia (logarithmically expressed) showed that the first three explain 38 % of the changes in Ac-P1, whereas malaria episodes and years of residence in the zone explain 28%.