Fatal complications of Plasmodium vivax malaria: A series of three case reports

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 578-580

  Sundriyal, Deepak ^a   Kumar, Naveen ^a   Chandrasekharan, Arun ^a   Sharma, Brijesh ^a   Patnaik, Itish ^a   Kamble, Ulka ^a  

^a DR RAM MANOHAR LOHIA HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

ARDS; pancreatitis; Plasmodium vivax; upper GI bleed

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMYLASE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ARTESUNATE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CREATININE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN; INFUSION FLUID; PARACETAMOL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRACKLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DENGUE VIRUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEADACHE; HEMATEMESIS; HEMORRHAGIC GASTRITIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFECTION COMPLICATION; JAUNDICE; LETHARGY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MELENA; OXYGEN BREATHING; OXYGEN TENSION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; SCHIZONT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TABLET FORMULATION; TACHYPNEA; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE BLOOD LEVEL; UMBILICUS;

EID: 84902476764     PISSN: 17556783     EISSN: 09746005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1755-6783.133748     Document Type: Article

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