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Cerebral Malaria

Cerebral malaria is the most common complication and cause of death in severe P. falciparum infection. In falciparum malaria, 10% of all admissions and 80% of deaths are due to the CNS involvement. On the other hand, CNS manifestations are fairly common in malaria and it could be due to…

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Srinivas February 27, 2015 January 9, 2018Complications cerebral malaria, coma, convulsions

Severe Malaria

Severe malaria is defined by the demonstration of asexual forms of the malaria parasites in the blood in a patient with a potentially fatal manifestation or complication of malaria in whom other diagnoses have been excluded. Even though the complications have been considered to be almost unique to P. falciparum…

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Srinivas February 27, 2015 January 9, 2018Complications cerebral malaria, severe malaria
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