Plasmodium Vivax Associated Myocarditis
  • Ajinkya A Sonambekar
    Department of Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences & GTB Hospital, Delhi
  • Nikhil Gupta
    Department of Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences & GTB Hospital, Delhi
  • Mukul P Agarwal
    Department of Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences & GTB Hospital, Delhi
  • Surendra Rajpal
    Department of Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences & GTB Hospital, Delhi
  • Amitesh Aggarwal
    Department of Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences & GTB Hospital, Delhi

Abstract

Plasmodium infection in human beings is often associated with complications. Complications such as cerebral malaria, acute respiratory distress syndrome, acute kidney injury and cardiac complications including myocarditis, pericarditis and hypoglycaemia may be seen in infection by Plasmodium falciparum. However, these complications have rarely been reported with Plasmodium vivax infections. Myopericarditis complicating P. vivax malaria is particularly rare and only a few cases have been reported so far. We report on a case of myopericarditis due to P. vivax malaria to add to the literature

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    Published: 2014-04-28
    Issue: Vol. 1 (2014) (view)

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    Sonambekar AA, Gupta N, Agarwal MP, Rajpal S, Aggarwal A. Plasmodium Vivax Associated Myocarditis. EJCRIM 2014;1 doi:10.12890/2014_000039.

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