Case reports: pernicious complications of benign tertian malaria.
Stephen D
Lawn
;
Sanjeev
Krishna
;
Joseph N
Jarvis
;
Thierry
Joet
;
Derek C
Macallan
;
(2003)
Case reports: pernicious complications of benign tertian malaria.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 97 (5).
pp. 551-553.
ISSN 0035-9203
DOI: 10.1016/s0035-9203(03)80024-x
;
Thierry
Joet
;
Derek C
Macallan
;
(2003)
Case reports: pernicious complications of benign tertian malaria.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 97 (5).
pp. 551-553.
ISSN 0035-9203
DOI: 10.1016/s0035-9203(03)80024-x
We describe 2 patients with complications of Plasmodium vivax malaria. Both patients developed marked intravascular haemolysis and haemoglobinuria despite normal levels of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in blood. One required mechanical ventilation because of life-threatening hypoxia due to acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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