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- Title
Plasmodium vivax Malaria Presenting with Multifocal Hemorrhagic Brain Infarcts in a School-going Child.
- Authors
Rathia, Santosh Kumar; Sankar, Jhuma; Kandasamy, Devasenathipathy; Lodha, Rakesh
- Abstract
Cerebral malaria is a well-known complication of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Over recent years, however, Plasmodium vivax also has been reported to cause cerebral malaria with or without co-infection with P. falciparum Here, we report a boy aged 10 years presenting with acute febrile encephalopathy with raised intracranial pressure to the emergency, who was later diagnosed to have P. vivax malaria. His neurological status improved gradually during 6 weeks of pediatric intensive care unit stay. We report this case to highlight the unusual radiologic findings in the patient, such as multifocal hemorrhagic infarcts in the brainstem, bilateral thalami, frontal cortex and basal ganglia, which have not been reported with P. vivax malaria.
- Subjects
PLASMODIUM vivax; MALARIA; HEMORRHAGIC septicemia; INTRACRANIAL pressure; CEREBRAL malaria
- Publication
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 2016, Vol 62, Issue 4, p341
- ISSN
0142-6338
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/tropej/fmw007