Plasmodium vivax Presenting With Septic Shock and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC): A Case Report
Malaria has various causative agents that can have a spectrum of disease manifestations, some potentially fatal. Various species have been established as etiologies of malaria, though our understanding of the severity of various species is changing. We present a unique case of Plasmodium vivax malar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10324627/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37425547 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40042 |
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author | Satti, Zain Khurshid, Abaan Mohammed, Rahed Jose, Rejath Olayode, Adewale |
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description | Malaria has various causative agents that can have a spectrum of disease manifestations, some potentially fatal. Various species have been established as etiologies of malaria, though our understanding of the severity of various species is changing. We present a unique case of Plasmodium vivax malaria that resulted in severe disease, a magnitude rarely seen in previous literature. Our patient was a 35-year-old healthy woman who presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and fever. Further workup revealed severe thrombocytopenia with prolonged prothrombin (PT) and partial thromboplastin time (PTT). An initial thick smear failed to detect any Plasmodium species, but a thin smear revealed P. vivax. The patient's hospital stay was complicated by septic shock requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission. This unique case represents P. vivax as the causative agent of severe malaria even in healthy, immunocompetent patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-103246272023-07-07 Plasmodium vivax Presenting With Septic Shock and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC): A Case Report Satti, Zain Khurshid, Abaan Mohammed, Rahed Jose, Rejath Olayode, Adewale Cureus Internal Medicine Malaria has various causative agents that can have a spectrum of disease manifestations, some potentially fatal. Various species have been established as etiologies of malaria, though our understanding of the severity of various species is changing. We present a unique case of Plasmodium vivax malaria that resulted in severe disease, a magnitude rarely seen in previous literature. Our patient was a 35-year-old healthy woman who presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and fever. Further workup revealed severe thrombocytopenia with prolonged prothrombin (PT) and partial thromboplastin time (PTT). An initial thick smear failed to detect any Plasmodium species, but a thin smear revealed P. vivax. The patient's hospital stay was complicated by septic shock requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission. This unique case represents P. vivax as the causative agent of severe malaria even in healthy, immunocompetent patients. Cureus 2023-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10324627/ /pubmed/37425547 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40042 Text en Copyright © 2023, Satti et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Satti, Zain Khurshid, Abaan Mohammed, Rahed Jose, Rejath Olayode, Adewale Plasmodium vivax Presenting With Septic Shock and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC): A Case Report |
title | Plasmodium vivax Presenting With Septic Shock and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC): A Case Report |
title_full | Plasmodium vivax Presenting With Septic Shock and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC): A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Plasmodium vivax Presenting With Septic Shock and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC): A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Plasmodium vivax Presenting With Septic Shock and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC): A Case Report |
title_short | Plasmodium vivax Presenting With Septic Shock and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC): A Case Report |
title_sort | plasmodium vivax presenting with septic shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation (dic): a case report |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10324627/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37425547 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40042 |
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