Image Case:Blood Malaria Parasites in a 20 Years Old Male Student Traveled to Sudan.
Zaher, T., Elgammal, N., Etewa, S., Mahmoud, T., Ibrahem, S., Mansour, A. (2020). Image Case:Blood Malaria Parasites in a 20 Years Old Male Student Traveled to Sudan.. EKB Journal Management System, 10(1), 60-60. doi: 10.21608/aeji.2020.70970
Tarik I Zaher; Nahla Elgammal; Samia E Etewa; Taghrid M Mahmoud; Shereen M Ibrahem; Ahmed Mansour. "Image Case:Blood Malaria Parasites in a 20 Years Old Male Student Traveled to Sudan.". EKB Journal Management System, 10, 1, 2020, 60-60. doi: 10.21608/aeji.2020.70970
Zaher, T., Elgammal, N., Etewa, S., Mahmoud, T., Ibrahem, S., Mansour, A. (2020). 'Image Case:Blood Malaria Parasites in a 20 Years Old Male Student Traveled to Sudan.', EKB Journal Management System, 10(1), pp. 60-60. doi: 10.21608/aeji.2020.70970
Zaher, T., Elgammal, N., Etewa, S., Mahmoud, T., Ibrahem, S., Mansour, A. Image Case:Blood Malaria Parasites in a 20 Years Old Male Student Traveled to Sudan.. EKB Journal Management System, 2020; 10(1): 60-60. doi: 10.21608/aeji.2020.70970

Image Case:Blood Malaria Parasites in a 20 Years Old Male Student Traveled to Sudan.

Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases
Article 8, Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2020, Page 60-60  XML PDF (148.38 K)
Document Type: Case report
DOI: 10.21608/aeji.2020.70970
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Authors
Tarik I Zaher email orcid 1; Nahla Elgammal1; Samia E Etewa2; Taghrid M Mahmoud1; Shereen M Ibrahem2; Ahmed Mansour3
1Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt.
2Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University ,Egypt.
3Haematology Unit ,Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt.
Abstract
A 20 years old male student presented with fever (reaching 40 C), rigors, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and severe weakness for three weeks. He gave a history of staying in Sudan for 14 months from where he arrived to Egypt about three months before admission to Haematology Unit, Internal Medicine and Tropical Medicine Departments ,Zagazig University Hospitals.
He suffered from a similar attack about one year ago when he was in Sudan. The condition was diagnosed that time as malaria  but the species was not defined . According to the patient, he was treated with lumifantrine -artemether and improved.
By examination of the patient, he looked very ill with severe pallor, and marked splenomegaly. His investigations showed Pancytopenia with (RBC 2.400,000/ul and hemoglobin 8.6 gm/dl), thrombocytopenia (platelets 100,000/ul) and leukopenia (3700/ul). ESR was high up to 110/ 1st hour and so CRP and LDH were also high. By ultrasound examination, the longitudinal diameter of his spleen was 18 cm. Multiple blood films were done and ring forms and gametocytes of Plasmodium falciparum were visualized. Diagnosis of Malaria infection was established and the species was defined as Plasmodium falciparum .
The patient received full course of artemether- lumefantrine (20/ 120 mg/ tablet) where he was given 6 doses, 4 tablets each. This course was followed by a course of doxycycline 100 mg capsule(twice per day)completed for one month(to avoid recrudescence). The patient showed marked progressive clinical and laboratory improvement. His splenomegaly improved almost to the normal longitudinal diameter (13cm). Complete recovery was obtained after follow up for 3 monthes.
 
Keywords
Malaria; Sudan; imported
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