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KMID : 0378019830260090055
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New Medical Journal
1983 Volume.26 No. 9 p.55 ~ p.58
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A Case of Cerebral Malaria
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Cerebral malaria is an acute diffuse encephalopathy that may complicate infection with Plasmodium falciparum. Clinical diagnosis of this entity is difficult, even in endemic areas. Since malaria can mimic a number of various neurological and psychiatric illnesses in nonendemic areas, a potentially fatal delay in treatment may result from failure to establish the correct diagnosis. We, authors, reported a case of cerebral malaria which were manifested various psychiatric symptoms.
A 34 year old male carpenter who had employed in Papua New Guinea, was admitted to Neuropsychiatry department of Kyung-Hee Medical Center due to insomnia, grandiose ideas and increased psychomotor activities. Numerous plasmodium falciparum parasites in peripheral blood smear were revealed at the time of high fever. Prompt and adequate antimalarial drugs was effective, with disappeared psychiatric symptoms.
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