Hypokalaemic paralysis in an adult case of Plasmodium vivax malaria

Hypokalaemia and its subsequent complications are more often seen in children rather than in adults and are more common with falciparum malaria. This is a case of a 26-year-old male with Plasmodium vivax malaria who had developed paraparesis secondary to hypokalaemia. His treatment involved correcti...

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Autores principales: Sinha, Sagar, Mukherji, Ananya, Chandrakar, Santwana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3620536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23530968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-111
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description Hypokalaemia and its subsequent complications are more often seen in children rather than in adults and are more common with falciparum malaria. This is a case of a 26-year-old male with Plasmodium vivax malaria who had developed paraparesis secondary to hypokalaemia. His treatment involved correction of the potassium level as well as the treatment of malaria. Such an atypical manifestation of malaria in an adult has not been previously documented.
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spelling pubmed-36205362013-04-10 Hypokalaemic paralysis in an adult case of Plasmodium vivax malaria Sinha, Sagar Mukherji, Ananya Chandrakar, Santwana Malar J Case Report Hypokalaemia and its subsequent complications are more often seen in children rather than in adults and are more common with falciparum malaria. This is a case of a 26-year-old male with Plasmodium vivax malaria who had developed paraparesis secondary to hypokalaemia. His treatment involved correction of the potassium level as well as the treatment of malaria. Such an atypical manifestation of malaria in an adult has not been previously documented. BioMed Central 2013-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3620536/ /pubmed/23530968 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-111 Text en Copyright © 2013 Sinha et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Hypokalaemic paralysis in an adult case of Plasmodium vivax malaria
title_full Hypokalaemic paralysis in an adult case of Plasmodium vivax malaria
title_fullStr Hypokalaemic paralysis in an adult case of Plasmodium vivax malaria
title_full_unstemmed Hypokalaemic paralysis in an adult case of Plasmodium vivax malaria
title_short Hypokalaemic paralysis in an adult case of Plasmodium vivax malaria
title_sort hypokalaemic paralysis in an adult case of plasmodium vivax malaria
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3620536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23530968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-111
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