Acute pancreatitis and acute respiratory distress syndrome complicating Plasmodium vivax malaria

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 151-154

  Atam, V ^a   Singh, A S ^a   Yathish, B E ^a   Das, L ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Malaria; Pancreatitis; Plasmodium vivax

Indexed keywords

ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ARTESUNATE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIGOR; SPUTUM SMEAR;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84879302870     PISSN: 09729062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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