Kala-azar in Qadisiah : a clinicoepidemiological descriptive study

الملخص EN

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.