title: Symmetrical peripheral gangrene: A rare complication of plasmodium falciparum malaria.
abstract: Malaria, the most important of the parasitic diseases of humans, is transmitted in 108 countries containing 3 billion people and causes nearly 1 million deaths each year. With the re-emergence of malaria various life-threatening complications of malaria have been observed. Unarousable coma/cerebral malaria, severe normochromic, normocytic anemia, renal failure, pulmonary edema/adult respiratory distress syndrome, hypoglycemia, hypotension/shock, bleeding/disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), hemoglobinuria and jaundice are few of the common complications of severe malaria. Symmetrical peripheral gangrene (SPG) has been reported as a rare complication of malaria. We report a rare and unique case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria complicated by DIC, severe normocytic normochromic anemia, and SPG.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, RNT Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Atul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rana
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, RNT Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, RNT Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Gurdeep
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kaur
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, RNT Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, RNT Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Hemant
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mahur
keywords: Complicated malaria; disseminated intravascular coagulation; severe anemia