[Evolutive visceral malaria and hyperimmune palustral splenomegaly: a difficult distinction].
One case of hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly is reported for a Comores Island patient living in France and having thus lost his protective immunity. Plasmodium falciparum was detected in a bone marrow aspiration, whereas peripheral venous blood samples were negative. A three-month treatment of sulfadoxine + pyrimethamine was effective with a complete regression of splenomegaly and biological disorders.
Gangneux
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Laboratoire de parasitologie, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris.
Vignes
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Poinsignon
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Derouin
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D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000469:parasitology; D017507:Comoros / Q000208:ethnology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D016778:Malaria, Falciparum / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology* / Q000469:parasitology; D008297:Male; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013163:Splenomegaly / Q000276:immunology* / Q000469:parasitology