Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) has come up with a new analyser
software program which is better equipped to distinguish symptoms of
malaria and dengue while being cost effective.
Indian doctors in collaboration with a Russian lab have developed
software to differentiate dengue, malaria and other viral fevers,
otherwise a challenging task due to their similar symptoms, an official
said.
With the onset of monsoon, dengue and malaria encroach the capital every
year. Doctors face challenge to distinguish malaria and dengue as both
have similar symptoms like high grade fever, loss of appetite, chill
etc. But this new diagnosis tool will potentially transform the
diagnostic approach to such tropical febrile illness in a
cost-constrained setting. The results have been successfully published
in the 15 June 2013 edition of International Journal of Laboratory
Haematology.
Both dengue and malaria are seldom distinguished due to their common
symptoms like thrombocytopenia and progression to shock and disseminated
intravascular coagulation. Numerous non-specific viral illnesses also
add to woes and create confusion while diagnosis of the patients. This
leads to a chain of expensive clinical tests and prescription of
antibiotics for all three groups till the doctors reach a specific
conclusion as a result of which treatment costs often gets very high.
But the new soft ware program of SGRH, led by Dr Manorama Bhargava
accurately analyses and concludes the the condition as malaria or
dengue. Besides, the process is set to benefit the public because of its
low cost. sns
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