Concomitant falciparum malaria and Hyperreactive Malarial Splenomegaly in an adolescent boy from eastern India: A tale of rare coincidences
| Autor: | Subir Ghosh, Arnab Patra, Prantiki Halder, Mausam Mondal, Soumen Nath Halder, Saurabh Pandey, Dipankar Pal, Dolon Champa Modak, Subhashish Kamal Guha |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Malarial infection
Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty business.industry hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly concomitant malaria fakunle criteria india Context (language use) General Medicine Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Jaundice medicine.disease Pancytopenia Eastern india Infectious Diseases Chloroquine Concomitant parasitic diseases Medicine Parasitology medicine.symptom business Malaria medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, Vol 57, Iss 3, Pp 274-276 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 0972-9062 |
| Popis: | Hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly (HMS) is one of the important causes of massive splenomegaly in malaria endemic zones. It is thought to represent a dysfunctional immune response to recurrent malarial infection. It is usually reported due to physical symptoms of splenomegaly and hypersplenism and fever is classically absent. Concomitant malaria with HMS is a very rare finding in the Indian context. Here, we report a case of symptomatic falciparum malaria presented with fever, jaundice, massive splenomegaly and pancytopenia. Persistent massive splenomegaly led us to investigate thoroughly and finally diagnosed it as HMS with concomitant falciparum malaria. He received standard antimalarial treatment and 12 months of weekly chloroquine and completely recovered without any relapse or complications. |
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