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Rana A, Singh DP, Kaur G, et al. Symmetrical peripheral gangrene: A rare complication of plasmodium falciparum malaria. Trop Parasitol. 2015;5(2):130-2doi: 10.4103/2229-5070.145592.
Rana, A., Singh, D. P., Kaur, G., Verma, S. K., & Mahur, H. (2015). Symmetrical peripheral gangrene: A rare complication of plasmodium falciparum malaria. Tropical parasitology, 5(2), 130-2. https://doi.org/10.4103/2229-5070.145592
Rana, Atul, et al. "Symmetrical peripheral gangrene: A rare complication of plasmodium falciparum malaria." Tropical parasitology vol. 5,2 (2015): 130-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/2229-5070.145592
Rana A, Singh DP, Kaur G, Verma SK, Mahur H. Symmetrical peripheral gangrene: A rare complication of plasmodium falciparum malaria. Trop Parasitol. 2015 Jul-Dec;5(2):130-2. doi: 10.4103/2229-5070.145592. PMID: 26629458; PMCID: PMC4557154.
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Trop Parasitol. 2015 Jul-Dec;5(2):130-2. doi: 10.4103/2229-5070.145592.

Symmetrical peripheral gangrene: A rare complication of plasmodium falciparum malaria.

Tropical parasitology

Atul Rana, D P Singh, Gurdeep Kaur, S K Verma, Hemant Mahur

Affiliations

  1. Department of Medicine, RNT Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.

PMID: 26629458 PMCID: PMC4557154 DOI: 10.4103/2229-5070.145592

Abstract

Malaria, the most important of the parasitic diseases of humans, is transmitted in 108 countries containing 3 billion people and causes nearly 1 million deaths each year. With the re-emergence of malaria various life-threatening complications of malaria have been observed. Unarousable coma/cerebral malaria, severe normochromic, normocytic anemia, renal failure, pulmonary edema/adult respiratory distress syndrome, hypoglycemia, hypotension/shock, bleeding/disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), hemoglobinuria and jaundice are few of the common complications of severe malaria. Symmetrical peripheral gangrene (SPG) has been reported as a rare complication of malaria. We report a rare and unique case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria complicated by DIC, severe normocytic normochromic anemia, and SPG.

Keywords: Complicated malaria; disseminated intravascular coagulation; severe anemia

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