MALARIA IN PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING THE WOMEN'S HOSPITAL MÃE LUZIA IN MACAPA, AMAPA, BRAZIL

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Rafael Cleison Silva dos
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Couto, Vanja Suely Calvosa D’almeida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biota Amazônia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifap.br/index.php/biota/article/view/623

Malaria is an infectious, parasitic and systemic character with episodic manifestations of acute and chronic disease caused by protozoa of the genus Plasmodium and transmitted to humans by the bite of female mosquito of the Anopheles genus. Pregnant women are vulnerable to malaria because their immune status changes during pregnancy, making it more susceptible to changes in pregnancy. This paper aims to describe the occurrence of cases of malaria in pregnant women attending the Women's Hospital Mother Luzia (HMML) in Macapa, Amapa, in the period 2009 to 2010. It is a desk study, which used a quantitative approach, with retrospective data collection. The results show that the anemia occurred in 92, 6% of pregnant women with malaria, whose highest proportion occurred in pregnant women infected with P. falciparum; thrombocytopenia was found in 100% of the women studied; the major obstetric findings, associated with malaria, were oligohydramnio, the threat of premature birth and fetal death; the average general hospital in pregnant women infected with malaria was three times the length of treatment recommended by Ministry of Health, and most average time of treatment occurred in pregnant women infected with P. falciparum and treated with Coarten ®. We conclude that malaria infection in pregnant women occurs primarily in young women infected with P. vivax, the thrombocytopenia and anemia being the main hematologic changes caused in particular by the way P. falciparum; and there was no consensus among the therapeutic procedures performed.Keywords: Malaria; Pregnancy; Plasmodium; Macapa; Amapa.Malaria is an infectious, parasitic and systemic character with episodic manifestations of acute and chronic disease caused by protozoa of the genus Plasmodium and transmitted to humans by the bite of female mosquito of the Anopheles genus. Pregnant women are vulnerable to malaria because their immune status changes during pregnancy, making it more susceptible to changes in pregnancy. This paper aims to describe the occurrence of cases of malaria in pregnant women attending the Women's Hospital Mother Luzia (HMML) in Macapa, Amapa, in the period 2009 to 2010. It is a desk study, which used a quantitative approach, with retrospective data collection. The results show that the anemia occurred in 92, 6% of pregnant women with malaria, whose highest proportion occurred in pregnant women infected with P. falciparum; thrombocytopenia was found in 100% of the women studied; the major obstetric findings, associated with malaria, were oligohydramnio, the threat of premature birth and fetal death; the average general hospital in pregnant women infected with malaria was three times the length of treatment recommended by Ministry of Health, and most average time of treatment occurred in pregnant women infected with P. falciparum and treated with Coarten ®. We conclude that malaria infection in pregnant women occurs primarily in young women infected with P. vivax, the thrombocytopenia and anemia being the main hematologic changes caused in particular by the way P. falciparum; and there was no consensus among the therapeutic procedures performed. Esta obra está licenciada sob uma LicençaCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internacional Macapá, v. 3, n. 1, p. 74-84, 2013Disponível em http://periodicos.unifap.br/index.php/biotaSubmetido em 21 de Março de 2013 / Aceito em 27 de Junho de 2013 Keywords: Malaria, Pregnancy, Plasmodium, Macapá, Amapá.