UNUSUAL PRESENTATION OF CONGENITAL PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA IN A NEONATE FROM TURKEY
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Fuat Gürkan 1 * , Meki Bilici 1, Mehmet Davutoğlu 1, Heybet Tüzün 1, İclal A. Sucaklı 1
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1 Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Diyarbakır, Turkey* Corresponding Author

Abstract

A 28-day-old full-term male neonate was admitted with symptoms and findings of jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, thrombocytopenia and a cavernous hemangioma on the forearm. Patient’s mother gave a history of antimalarial drug usage before pregnancy. He did not have characteristic symptoms like fever and chills at presentation, and had an associated hemangioma which could partly explain the jaundice and thrombocytopenia. The diagnosis of congenital malaria was established only when Plasmodium vivax was detected after the third blood smear.

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Article Type: Case Report

EUR J GEN MED, Volume 1, Issue 3, July 2004, 49-50

https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/82207

Publication date: 15 Jul 2004

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