COMATOSE PERNICIOUS MALARIA.

Pernicious Forms of Malaria at Sompeta, Ganjam District

A Case of Pernicious Malaria Treated with Quinine Intravenously

were cold and shrivelled, both pulses were almostimperceptible, the temperature was subnormal, there was agonising pain near the umbilicus and liver area accompanied with persistent bilious vomiting and purging. The stools resembled very much those of dysentery. The patient was restless and sighing in respiration. I took the history, and was told, that shortly after the boy had come back from J...

A Case of Septicæmic Plague Simulating Pernicious Malaria

Cognitive event-related potentials in comatose and post-comatose states.

We review the interest of cognitive event-related potentials (ERPs) in comatose, vegetative, or minimally conscious patients. Auditory cognitive ERPs are useful to investigate residual cognitive functions, such as echoic memory (MMN), acoustical and semantic discrimination (P300), and incongruent language detection (N400). While early ERPs (such as the absence of cortical responses on somatosen...

Safety of lumbar puncture in comatose children with clinical features of cerebral malaria

OBJECTIVE We assessed the independent association of lumbar puncture (LP) and death in Malawian children admitted to the hospital with the clinical features of cerebral malaria (CM). METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study in Malawian children with clinical features of CM. Allocation to LP was nonrandom and was associated with severity of illness. Propensity score-based analyses were us...