Table 1.
Reference | Patient age | Gender | Medical history | Travel history | Prophylaxis | Time to presentation | Parasitaemia | WHO or other severity criteria | Treatment | Outcome |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
This case report |
42 yr |
Male |
None |
Kalia, Guinea: 6 months ago Mozambique: 1 month ago |
None |
1-6 months |
1.4% |
Jaundice, respiratory distress, hypotension, incipient bleeding |
IV quinine, 14 days primaquine |
Recovered |
Lee et al. [16] |
31 yr |
Female |
None |
Ghana |
Mefloquine |
10 months |
0.1% |
ARDS |
Chloroquine, 14 days primaquine |
Recovered |
Rojo Marcos et al. [17] |
43 yr |
Male |
Hypertensive, diabetic |
Nigeria |
None |
N/S |
6,000/μL |
ARDS |
Chloroquine, 14 days primaquine |
Recovered |
Haydoura et al. [18] |
46 yr |
Female |
Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase mutation with secondary portal vein thrombosis |
Acquired by transfusion |
N/A |
1 month following transfusion |
1.11% |
ARDS |
IV quinine and doxycycline, 14 days primaquine |
Recovered |
Roze et al. [19] |
24 yr |
Male |
Tuberous sclerosis |
Chad, Ivory Coast |
Doxycycline |
1 year |
0.1% |
ARDS |
Chloroquine then changed to quinine |
Recovered |
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Lau et al. [20] |
59 yr |
Male |
None |
Victoria Island, Nigeria |
Mefloquine |
6 months |
0.18% |
ARDS, acute renal failure, metabolic acidosis |
Chloroquine plus primaquine, changed to quinine, then artesunate |
Demised |
Hashimi et al. [21] |
31 yr |
Male |
Previous pulmonary tuberculosis (20 years ago) |
Democratic Republic of Congo |
N/S |
7 months |
0.2% |
ARDS |
IV quinine |
Demised |
Facer et al. [23] |
51 yr |
Female |
N/S |
Ghana |
None |
12 days |
1.8% |
Splenic rupture |
None |
Demised |
Patel et al. [24] |
42 yr |
Male |
N/S |
South and Central Africa |
Hydroxychloroquine, discontinued during travel |
18 months |
N/S |
Splenic rupture |
Chloroquine and primaquine |
Recovered |
Cinquetti et al. [25] | 34 yr | Male | None | Senegal 2002, Ivory Coast 2004 | Doxycycline | 2-4 years | 0.001% | Splenic infarction | IV quinine | Recovered |
N/S: Not stated; N/A: not applicable; ARDS: Acute respiratory distress syndrome.