Splenic infarction during Plasmodium ovale acute malaria: first case reported.
The splenic complications of acute malaria include two different prognostic and treatment entities: splenic infarction and splenic rupture. This is the first case of splenic infarction during an acute malaria due to Plasmodium ovale in a 34-year-old man. As in the majority other described cases of splenic infarction, the course was spontaneously favourable, suggesting that this complication was relatively benign compared to splenic rupture, which is life-threatening and usually necessitating surgery.
Service de Médecine Interne et Maladie Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Legouest, 27 avenue de Plantières, BP 90001, 57077 METZ Cedex 3, France. gael.cinquetti@gmail.com
Gaël
G
Cinquetti
Frédéric
F
Banal
Candyce
C
Rondel
David
D
Plancade
Charlotte
C
de Saint Roman
Dina
D
Adriamanantena
Céline
C
Ragot
Serge
S
Védy
Bruno
B
Graffin
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000150:complications* / Q000469:parasitology*; D008297:Male; D041122:Plasmodium ovale / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal; D013159:Splenic Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed