Malaria-Induced Splenic Infarction
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Splenic infarction in Plasmodium vivax malaria.
In recent years, the association between infections and antiphospholipid syndrome has been reported in several epidemiologic and experimental studies that support the idea of infectious induction of aPL [2]. Witmer, et al. [3] reported two children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pulmonary infection complicated by the development of splenic infarction and transient antiphospholipid antibodies. Among...
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ting of hematologic disorders like sickle-cell anemia, leukemia, lymphoma, polycythemia vera and hypercoagulable states like protein C, protein S deficiencies due to clogging of the splenic microcirculation by abnormal cells1. Other conditions include thromboembolic phenomenon like infective endocarditis, atrial fibrillation and postcardiac surgery. In malaria, splenic infarction is a rare comp...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0002-9637,1476-1645
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0190