Severe Plasmodium falciparum infection mimicking acute myocardial infarction

This case report describes a case of presumed acute myocardial infarction in a returned traveler who was later diagnosed to have severe malaria. Emergency coronary angiography was normal and subsequent peripheral blood film was positive for Plasmodium falciparum.

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Autores principales: Sulaiman, Helmi, Ismail, Muhammad Dzafir, Jalalonmuhali, Maisarah, Atiya, Nadia, Ponnampalavanar, Sasheela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4161891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25176417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-341
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author Sulaiman, Helmi
Ismail, Muhammad Dzafir
Jalalonmuhali, Maisarah
Atiya, Nadia
Ponnampalavanar, Sasheela
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description This case report describes a case of presumed acute myocardial infarction in a returned traveler who was later diagnosed to have severe malaria. Emergency coronary angiography was normal and subsequent peripheral blood film was positive for Plasmodium falciparum.
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spelling pubmed-41618912014-09-13 Severe Plasmodium falciparum infection mimicking acute myocardial infarction Sulaiman, Helmi Ismail, Muhammad Dzafir Jalalonmuhali, Maisarah Atiya, Nadia Ponnampalavanar, Sasheela Malar J Case Report This case report describes a case of presumed acute myocardial infarction in a returned traveler who was later diagnosed to have severe malaria. Emergency coronary angiography was normal and subsequent peripheral blood film was positive for Plasmodium falciparum. BioMed Central 2014-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4161891/ /pubmed/25176417 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-341 Text en © Sulaiman et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Severe Plasmodium falciparum infection mimicking acute myocardial infarction
title Severe Plasmodium falciparum infection mimicking acute myocardial infarction
title_full Severe Plasmodium falciparum infection mimicking acute myocardial infarction
title_fullStr Severe Plasmodium falciparum infection mimicking acute myocardial infarction
title_full_unstemmed Severe Plasmodium falciparum infection mimicking acute myocardial infarction
title_short Severe Plasmodium falciparum infection mimicking acute myocardial infarction
title_sort severe plasmodium falciparum infection mimicking acute myocardial infarction
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4161891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25176417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-341
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