Abstract

The study was done to determine platelets indexes of patients with acute myeloid leukaemia in a tertiary hospital in
Uganda. The study was done in Ishaka Uganda at Kampala International University Teaching Hospital, Ishaka,
Uganda. The study adopted hospital based cross-sectional design where patients who attended the hospital with acute
myeloid luekaemia (AML) were selected for the study on purposive sampling technique and the haematological
variables evaluated with the apparently healthy individuals. A total of eighty (80) subjects comprising forty (40) acute
myeloid patients and forty (40) apparently healthy subjects were recruited for the study using purposive sampling
technique. The data were analysed using student t-test and present as mean ± standard deviation using SPSS version
20 and level of significance set at P<0.05. The study revealed decrease in platelets and plateletcrit. This may lead to
bleeding disorders that may be seen in the patients. The platelets inflammatory indexes had some impactful changes
which may affect the quality of life of the patients. These changes in inflammatory indexes of platelets will help to
determine the mortality and morbidity of the affected patients.