CASE REPORT
UNUSUAL PRESENTATION OF CONGENITAL PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA IN A NEONATE FROM TURKEY
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Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Diyarbakır, Turkey
Online publication date: 2004-07-15
Publication date: 2004-07-15
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Fuat Gürkan
Dicle University, Medical School, Dept. of Pediatrics
Diyarbakır, Turkey
Eur J Gen Med 2004;1(3):49-50
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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.