Falciparum malaria associated with jaundice, renal failure and anaemia

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1971

Abstract

Three patients were described in whom falciparum malaria was accompanied by severe jaundice, renal failure due to tubular necrosis, and anaemia without overt intravascular haemolysis. Treatment with antimalarial drugs and peritoneal dialysis was successful in 2, but the third patient died from a bleeding peptic ulcer which complicated his illness. The renal failure and other manifestations of the P. falciparum infection are considered in the light of a common toxic factor. © 1971.

Keywords

Adult, Anemia, Antimalarials, Bilirubin, Biopsy, Human, Jaundice, Kidney, Kidney Failure, Acute, Liver, Malaria, Male, Middle Age, Peritoneal Dialysis, Plasmodium falciparum, Urea

Divisions

fac_med

Funders

U.S.P.H.S. Asia Grant No. 5 R22 AMl1048-04

Publication Title

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volume

65

Issue

6

Publisher

Oxford University Press

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