Table 1.

List of cases of acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis reported after recovery from malaria.

First author	Species	Age of patient	Time of neurological complication after recovery from malaria	MRI finding (T2-DWI)	Treatment	Outcome
Mohsen4	P. falciparum	30y	8 weeks	Hyperintensities in subcortical white matter of right frontal and temporal lobes and left cerebellar hemisphere	No steroids	Complete neurological recovery
Sharma9	P. falciparum	20y	2 weeks	Hyperintensities of subcortical white matter, corpus callosum and midbrain	I/V methylprednisolone for 3 days	Complete neurological recovery
Rachita10	P. falciparum	4y	1 week	Hyperintensities in cerebral hemisphere, subcortical white matter and midbrain	I/V methylprednisolone for 3days, then oral steroids	Complete neurological recovery
Agrawal11	P. f alciparum	12y	16 days	Hyperintensities in perventricular white matter, centrum semiovale and genu of corpus callosum	I/V methylprednisolone for 5 days, then oral steroids	Complete neurological recovery
Koibuchi12	P. vivax	24y	2 weeks	Hyperintensities in left cerebral cortex and subcortex		Complete neurological recovery
Goyal6	P. vivax	18mo	1 week	Diffuse white matter hyperintensities fof subcortical deep and periventricular white matter and both external capsules	I/V methylprednisolone for 3 days, then oral steroids for 2 weeks	Complete neurological recovery

y, years; mo, months; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging.