Fatal Myocarditis in Course of Plasmodium falciparum Infection: Case Report and Review of Cardiac Complications in Malaria

We describe a fatal case of imported malaria where the sole finding revealed at the postmortem evaluation was an acute lymphocytic myocarditis with myocardiolysis. This case recalls the potential importance of myocardial injury in the prognosis of malaria and prompts a reevaluation of current perspe...

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Autores principales: Costenaro, Paola, Benedetti, Paolo, Facchin, Chiara, Mengoli, Carlo, Pellizzer, Giampietro
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21541220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/202083

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21541220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/202083

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