Malarial pancreatitis: Case report and systematic review of the literature

Malaria can cause a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from uncomplicated febrile illness to multiorgan failure. Pancreatitis is a rare complication of malaria with only a few reported cases. Herein, we describe a case of acute pancreatitis with multiorgan failure due to Plasmodium fal...

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Autores principales: Sehgal, Inderpaul Singh, Agarwal, Ritesh, Behera, Digambar, Dhooria, Sahajal
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26816452
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.171414
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Agarwal, Ritesh
Behera, Digambar
Dhooria, Sahajal
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description Malaria can cause a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from uncomplicated febrile illness to multiorgan failure. Pancreatitis is a rare complication of malaria with only a few reported cases. Herein, we describe a case of acute pancreatitis with multiorgan failure due to Plasmodium falciparum managed successfully with antimalarials and conservative treatment. We also perform a systematic review of literature for reports of acute pancreatitis due to Plasmodium infection.
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spelling pubmed-47112112016-01-26 Malarial pancreatitis: Case report and systematic review of the literature Sehgal, Inderpaul Singh Agarwal, Ritesh Behera, Digambar Dhooria, Sahajal Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Malaria can cause a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from uncomplicated febrile illness to multiorgan failure. Pancreatitis is a rare complication of malaria with only a few reported cases. Herein, we describe a case of acute pancreatitis with multiorgan failure due to Plasmodium falciparum managed successfully with antimalarials and conservative treatment. We also perform a systematic review of literature for reports of acute pancreatitis due to Plasmodium infection. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4711211/ /pubmed/26816452 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.171414 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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