From: Plasmodium ovale: a case of not-so-benign tertian malaria
Reference | Patient age | Gender | Medical history | Travel history | Prophylaxis | Time to presentation | Parasitaemia | WHO or other severity criteria | Treatment | Outcome |
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This case report | 42 yr | Male | None | Kalia, Guinea: 6 months ago Mozambique: 1 month ago | None | 1-6 months | 1.4% | Jaundice, respiratory distress, hypotension, incipient bleeding | IV quinine, 14 days primaquine | Recovered |
Lee et al. [16] | 31 yr | Female | None | Ghana | Mefloquine | 10 months | 0.1% | ARDS | Chloroquine, 14 days primaquine | Recovered |
Rojo Marcos et al. [17] | 43 yr | Male | Hypertensive, diabetic | Nigeria | None | N/S | 6,000/μL | ARDS | Chloroquine, 14 days primaquine | Recovered |
Haydoura et al. [18] | 46 yr | Female | Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase mutation with secondary portal vein thrombosis | Acquired by transfusion | N/A | 1 month following transfusion | 1.11% | ARDS | IV quinine and doxycycline, 14 days primaquine | Recovered |
Roze et al. [19] | 24 yr | Male | Tuberous sclerosis | Chad, Ivory Coast | Doxycycline | 1 year | 0.1% | ARDS | Chloroquine then changed to quinine | Recovered |
Lau et al. [20] | 59 yr | Male | None | Victoria Island, Nigeria | Mefloquine | 6 months | 0.18% | ARDS, acute renal failure, metabolic acidosis | Chloroquine plus primaquine, changed to quinine, then artesunate | Demised |
Hashimi et al. [21] | 31 yr | Male | Previous pulmonary tuberculosis (20 years ago) | Democratic Republic of Congo | N/S | 7 months | 0.2% | ARDS | IV quinine | Demised |
Facer et al. [23] | 51 yr | Female | N/S | Ghana | None | 12 days | 1.8% | Splenic rupture | None | Demised |
Patel et al. [24] | 42 yr | Male | N/S | South and Central Africa | Hydroxychloroquine, discontinued during travel | 18 months | N/S | Splenic rupture | Chloroquine and primaquine | Recovered |
Cinquetti et al. [25] | 34 yr | Male | None | Senegal 2002, Ivory Coast 2004 | Doxycycline | 2-4 years | 0.001% | Splenic infarction | IV quinine | Recovered |