Rare presentation of a common disease of tropics.
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in English
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| ID: sea-88056
ABSTRACT
A 19 years male presented with fever, oliguria and purpuric lesions involving both hands. The patient was diagnosed as a case of purpura fulminans with disseminated intravascular coagulation due to complicated falciparum malaria. The case is presented to sensitize the physicians to keep malaria as a differential in cases of fever with purpura fulminans.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Pentoxifylline
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Plasma
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Quinine
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Humans
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Male
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Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors
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Cephalosporins
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Acute Disease
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Renal Dialysis
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Adult
Language:
English
Year:
2008
Type:
Article
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