A STUDY OF SOME BLOOD PARAMETERS AMONG DENGUE PATIENTS IN LAHJ/ YEMEN

The present study was carried out to evaluate the effect of dengue fever on some hematological and biochemical parameters on patients, whose were infected with dengue virus at AL-Jamaheer Medical Center\ Lahj from July to September 2018.One hundred and three cases have been tested, among them 52.4% were males and 47.6% were females, the age ranged from a year to 60 years old.The tests included the evaluation of complete blood count (CBC), aminotransferase levels, glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT), and glutamate pyruvate transaminase (GPT), in addition to serum Urea, and creatinine levels.Hematological tests revealed that approximately 56.3 % of cases showed a decrease in white blood cell (WBC) count with about 4000/μl, 19.4% cases with values between 2000 -3000/μl and 2000 /μl in 15.5 % cases, whereas 21.4% cases were with a range between 3000-4000/μl.Platelet counts (PLT) were decreased to