title: Severe Plasmodium vivax malaria among sudanese children at New Halfa Hospital, Eastern Sudan.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There are few published reports on severe Plasmodium vivax malaria in Africa.
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical pattern/manifestations of severe P. vivax were described in children admitted at New Halfa Hospital in Sudan between September 2009-December 2011.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eighteen children were admitted at the hospital during the study period with different manifestations of severe P. vivax malaria namely: severe anaemia (6, 33.3%), jaundice (5, 27.8%), thrombocytopenia (4, 22.2%), hypotension (3, 16.7%), cerebral malaria (2, 11.1%), epistaxis (2, 11.1%), renal impairment (1, 5.5%), hypogylcaemia and more than one manifestation (5, 27.8%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Severe P. vivax malaria is an existing entity in eastern Sudan. Further studies are required to understand emergence of severe P. vivax malaria.
authors: Hyder
authors: H
authors: Mahgoub
authors: Gasim I
authors: GI
authors: Gasim
authors: Imad R
authors: IR
authors: Musa
authors: Ishag
authors: I
authors: Adam
mesh_terms: D000962:Antimalarials / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D016780:Malaria, Vivax / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D018512:Parasitemia / Q000473:pathology; D010966:Plasmodium vivax / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013397:Sudan / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D000962:Antimalarials