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Autoimmune Dysfunction Due to Severe Malaria
Despite advances in treatment and prevention, malaria still carries significant morbidity and mortality. Cases of malaria in the United States are rare and cases of severe malaria, mostly attributable to Plasmodium falciparum, are even more uncommon. With the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pand...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9239295/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35774704 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25458 |
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author | Kou, Aretha Kirschen, Jonathan Sundaresh, Koravangala Desai, Parth |
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description | Despite advances in treatment and prevention, malaria still carries significant morbidity and mortality. Cases of malaria in the United States are rare and cases of severe malaria, mostly attributable to Plasmodium falciparum, are even more uncommon. With the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there have been distractions in evaluation and diagnosis leading to a rise in cases and deaths. We present a case of autoimmune dysregulation and blackwater fever secondary to severe malaria, requiring multiple courses of antimalarial therapy. Careful travel history and prompt recognition and treatment facilitates improved patient survival and recovery. |
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spelling | pubmed-92392952022-06-29 Autoimmune Dysfunction Due to Severe Malaria Kou, Aretha Kirschen, Jonathan Sundaresh, Koravangala Desai, Parth Cureus Internal Medicine Despite advances in treatment and prevention, malaria still carries significant morbidity and mortality. Cases of malaria in the United States are rare and cases of severe malaria, mostly attributable to Plasmodium falciparum, are even more uncommon. With the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there have been distractions in evaluation and diagnosis leading to a rise in cases and deaths. We present a case of autoimmune dysregulation and blackwater fever secondary to severe malaria, requiring multiple courses of antimalarial therapy. Careful travel history and prompt recognition and treatment facilitates improved patient survival and recovery. Cureus 2022-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9239295/ /pubmed/35774704 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25458 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kou et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Kou, Aretha Kirschen, Jonathan Sundaresh, Koravangala Desai, Parth Autoimmune Dysfunction Due to Severe Malaria |
title | Autoimmune Dysfunction Due to Severe Malaria |
title_full | Autoimmune Dysfunction Due to Severe Malaria |
title_fullStr | Autoimmune Dysfunction Due to Severe Malaria |
title_full_unstemmed | Autoimmune Dysfunction Due to Severe Malaria |
title_short | Autoimmune Dysfunction Due to Severe Malaria |
title_sort | autoimmune dysfunction due to severe malaria |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9239295/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35774704 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25458 |
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