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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...
Autores principales: | Costenaro, Paola, Benedetti, Paolo, Facchin, Chiara, Mengoli, Carlo, Pellizzer, Giampietro |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2011
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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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