Malaria Complicating Neoplastic Disease
- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 136 (7) , 807-810
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1976.03630070051016
Abstract
Two patients with neoplastic disease had transfusion-induced malaria. In a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia infected withPlasmodium vivax, neither his underlying disease nor intensive cytotoxic chemotherapy appeared to ameliorate or worsen the clinical course of his infection. In a splenectomized patient with metastatic carcinoma of the colon,P malariaeinfection was associated with a fulminant course simulating cerebral malaria. Despite delay in diagnosis, both patients responded dramatically to antimalarial chemotherapy and both developed appreciable antibody responses. (Arch Intern Med136:807-810, 1976)Keywords
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