Volume : VIII, Issue : V, May - 2018
Splenic infarct in a patient of acute Plasmodium vivax malaria: A rare case report
Prajit Mazumdar, Malyaban Das, Garima Sachdeva
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Malaria is among one the most common infectious disease throughout India. There can be various life threatening complications of malaria among which splenic infarction is one but is very rare. Splenic infarction mainly occurs in cases of infective endocarditis due to thromboembolism, lymphomas, leukamias , sickle cell anaemia, polycythemia vera and few other haematological conditions . Splenic infarcts are rare in malaria and most reported cases are due to plasmodium falcifarum infection. Our patient had a splenic infarct due to plasmodium vivax , hence we report this case.
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DOI : 10.36106/ijar
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Prajit Mazumdar, Malyaban Das, Garima Sachdeva, Splenic infarct in a patient of acute Plasmodium vivax malaria: A rare case report, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-5 | May-2018
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Prajit Mazumdar, Malyaban Das, Garima Sachdeva, Splenic infarct in a patient of acute Plasmodium vivax malaria: A rare case report, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-5 | May-2018
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