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The study was done to determine platelets indexes of patients with acute myeloid leukaemia in a tertiary hospital inUganda. 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 acutemyeloid luekaemia (AML) were selected for the study on purposive sampling technique and the haematologicalvariables evaluated with the apparently healthy individuals. A total of eighty (80) subjects comprising forty (40) acutemyeloid patients and forty (40) apparently healthy subjects were recruited for the study using purposive samplingtechnique. The data were analysed using student t-test and present as mean ± standard deviation using SPSS version20 and level of significance set at P<0.05. The study revealed decrease in platelets and plateletcrit. This may lead tobleeding disorders that may be seen in the patients. The platelets inflammatory indexes had some impactful changeswhich may affect the quality of life of the patients. These changes in inflammatory indexes of platelets will help todetermine the mortality and morbidity of the affected patients.