Postmalaria neurological syndrome: two cases from the Gambia.
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چکیده
We describe 2 patients with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria whose convalescence was complicated by fever, with acute confusion and acalculia in one patient and a triad of myoclonus, tremor, and dysphasia in the other. Inflammatory changes were found in cerebrospinal fluid samples. Postmalaria neurological syndrome was diagnosed in each patient, and a therapeutic response to oral corticosteroids was seen in the second patient.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
دوره 36 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003