학술논문
Post-splenectomy acute glomerulonephritis due to a chronic infection with Plasmodium falciparum and malariae.
Document Type
Journal Article
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Subject
*PLASMODIUM falciparum
*INFECTION
*SPLENECTOMY
*PROTOZOA
*MALARIA
*GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
*DISEASE complications
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ISSN
1195-1982
Abstract
A case study of a 38-year-old Senegalese man with no previous medical history and living in Spain since 2004 was admitted due to fever, hypotension and edemas. It notes that he presented with fever being diagnosed with severe malaria 6 weeks after surgery. The article discusses post-splenectomy acute glomerulonephritis due to a chronic infection with Plasmodium falciparum and malariae.