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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics Advance Access originally published online on January 30, 2007
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 2007 53(3):210-212; doi:10.1093/tropej/fml092
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Case Report

Unusual Presentation of Plasmodium vivax Malaria with Severe Thrombocytopenia and Acute Renal Failure

Dilpreet Kaur, Vani Wasir, Sheffali Gulati and Arvind Bagga

Department of Paediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India

Correspondence: Dr Dilpreet Kaur and Dr Sheffali Gulati, Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India. E-mail < dilpreet_kaur24{at}yahoo.com>; < Sheffalig{at}yahoo.com> and < Sheffaligulati{at}gmail.com>.


  Abstract

Renal failure and uremic encephalopathy are rare findings in Plasmodium vivax malaria. Thrombocytopenia is also an unusual manifestation of P. vivax malaria. This report highlights the occurrence of these rare manifestations in an 8-year-old boy who presented to us with fever, rash and progressive deterioration of renal functions.


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