ACUTE PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA PRESENTING WITH PANCYTOPENIA SECONDARY TO HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW

Pancytopenia as an initial manifestation of acute plasmodium vivax malaria is extremely rare and mainly reported with plasmodium falciparum. We report a 37- year old Nepali patient who recently came to Saudi Arabia and presented with a three-week history of intermittent fever, chills and rigor. She...

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Autor principal: Albaker, Waleed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3377033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23012194
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description Pancytopenia as an initial manifestation of acute plasmodium vivax malaria is extremely rare and mainly reported with plasmodium falciparum. We report a 37- year old Nepali patient who recently came to Saudi Arabia and presented with a three-week history of intermittent fever, chills and rigor. She was found to have spleenomegaly, pancytopenia, hyperferrtinemia, and hypofibronogenemia with positive peripheral blood smear for plasmodium vivax. The patient had a full recovery from pancytopenia with oral chloroquine.
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spelling pubmed-33770332012-09-24 ACUTE PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA PRESENTING WITH PANCYTOPENIA SECONDARY TO HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW Albaker, Waleed J Family Community Med Case Report Pancytopenia as an initial manifestation of acute plasmodium vivax malaria is extremely rare and mainly reported with plasmodium falciparum. We report a 37- year old Nepali patient who recently came to Saudi Arabia and presented with a three-week history of intermittent fever, chills and rigor. She was found to have spleenomegaly, pancytopenia, hyperferrtinemia, and hypofibronogenemia with positive peripheral blood smear for plasmodium vivax. The patient had a full recovery from pancytopenia with oral chloroquine. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC3377033/ /pubmed/23012194 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Family and Community Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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ACUTE PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA PRESENTING WITH PANCYTOPENIA SECONDARY TO HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW
title ACUTE PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA PRESENTING WITH PANCYTOPENIA SECONDARY TO HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW
title_full ACUTE PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA PRESENTING WITH PANCYTOPENIA SECONDARY TO HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW
title_fullStr ACUTE PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA PRESENTING WITH PANCYTOPENIA SECONDARY TO HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW
title_full_unstemmed ACUTE PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA PRESENTING WITH PANCYTOPENIA SECONDARY TO HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW
title_short ACUTE PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA PRESENTING WITH PANCYTOPENIA SECONDARY TO HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW
title_sort acute plasmodium vivax malaria presenting with pancytopenia secondary to hemophagocytic syndrome: case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3377033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23012194
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