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  • Title: [A severe case of acute malaria tropica--haemolysis and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (author's transl)].
    Author: Hofer JF, Egermann G, Sommer K.
    Journal: Wien Klin Wochenschr; 1981 Jan 09; 93(1):11-3. PubMed ID: 7222704.
    Abstract:
    The case is reported of a 24-year old male patient, who was infected with Plasmodium falciparum during prolonged touch-down at Maputo and Dar-es-Salaam on returning from Lesotho (South Africa), a non-endemic areas. Severe haemolysis, anaemia, myocardiopathy, renal insufficiency, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and mild encephalopathy occurred. The patient's condition was very serious, but he responded rapidly to chloroquine, heparin, fibrinogen and other intensive medication and was soon discharged, fully cured.
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