title: [Cerebral malaria in the child. A study of 11 cases with good prognosis at CHU of Yaoundé, Cameroon].
abstract: From January to December 1993, 11 cases of cerebral malaria out of a total of 106 cases of malaria were admitted in the paediatric unit of the Yaounde University Teaching Hospital. These 11 patients were comprised of 6 boys and 5 girls aged 6 months to 10 years with a mean of 4.24 years. Convulsions and coma were the main clinical manifestation in 9 and 11 patients respectively. 10 patients had fever with 1 case of hyperpyrexia, whereas splenomegaly was noted in 6 patients and hepatomegaly in 2. Parasitemia was between 0.02 and 4 %. Chemoprophylaxis was irregular in 2 patients and absent in 9. The average hospital stay was 5.5 days and no death was noted in our series.
authors.affiliation: CHU, Yaoundé, Cameroun.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ketchiozo
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Tchokoteu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mbede
mesh_terms: D002163:Cameroon; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003128:Coma; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007902:Length of Stay; D016779:Malaria, Cerebral / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D012640:Seizures
vernacular_title: Le paludisme cérébral de l'enfant. Une étude de 11 cas de bon pronostic au CHU de Yaoundé, Cameroun.