Complications of Kidney in Severe Malaria

Plasmodium vivax associated severe malaria complications among children in some malaria endemic areas of Ethiopia

BACKGROUND Although, Plasmodium vivax is a rare parasite in most parts of Africa, it has significant public health importance in Ethiopia. In some parts of the country, it is responsible for majority of malaria associated morbidity. Recently severe life threatening malaria syndromes, frequently associated to P. falciparum, has been reported from P. vivax mono-infections. This prompted designing...

Neurological complications of malaria.

This paper reviews the neurological complications of malaria. Cerebral malaria, the acute encephalopathy which complicates exclusively the infection by Plasmodium falciparum commonly affects children and adolescents in hyperendemic areas. Plugging of cerebral capillaries and venules by clumped, parasitized red blood cells causing blood sludging in the capillary circulation is one hypothesis to ...

NEUROLOGIC AND PSYCHOLOGIC COMPLICATIONS AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION

Neurologic and psychologic complications are usually related to drug toxicity, infections or symptoms induced by deterioration of renal allograft function. Metabolic encephalopathy, hypertensive encephalopathy, cerebrovascular events, and new-onset seizures have all been reported in organ-transplant recipients. Infections can be caused by listeria, cryptococcus, nocardia, aspergillus and mu...

The Kidney in Malaria

Managing severe malaria in an intensive care unit contraindications and complications of treatment with quinine

Introduction Although Portugal was one of the first countries eradicating malaria in Europe, the burden of the disease remains high, particularly due to the close relationship with its former african colonies. Due to its adverse effects and higher mortality rate in patients treated with quinine, methanalysis by the Cochrane Group published in June 2012, suggests artesunate as first line therapy...