✦ LIBER ✦
Fever, mental impairment, acute anemia, and renal failure in patient undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation: Posttransplantation malaria
✍ Scribed by Francesco Menichetti; Maria Lucia Bindi; Carlo Tascini; Lucio Urbani; Gianni Biancofiore; Roberta Doria; Massimo Esposito; Roberto Mozzo; Gabriele Catalano; Franco Filipponi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 98 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-6465
- DOI
- 10.1002/lt.20730
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✦ Synopsis
A case of post-transplant malaria is described. The patient presented fever and severe anemia after orthotopic liver transplantation. Diagnosis was made only after the review of donor characteristics. Although a high parasitemia was found at the moment of diagnosis, the treatment with quinine and doxycycline was successful. Donor epidemiology should always be considered for a prompt diagnosis of rare tropical diseases in the graft recipients.