[A close contact of coronavirus disease 2019 with severe imported malaria: a case report].

Abstract

This article presents a severe cerebral malaria patient in shock with a close contact of COVID-19 that was successfully cured in a negative pressure ward during the global pandemic of COVID-19. The patient experienced a sudden onset of high fever and coma in a designated isolation hotel after returning from Africa, and was transferred to a designated hospital. Following antimalarial therapy, blood pressure elevation, increase of blood volume, bedside hemodialysis, mechanical ventilation, plasma and platelet transfusions, the case gradual recovered.

• Authors: S Ouyang, Y Zhai, R Feng, Y Xiong, L Yu, C Liu
• Journal: Zhongguo xue xi chong bing fang zhi za zhi = Chinese journal of schistosomiasis control (Zhongguo Xue Xi Chong Bing Fang Zhi Za Zhi) Vol. 35 Issue 4 Pg. 421-423 (Sep 25 2023) ISSN: 1005-6661 [Print] China
• PMID: 37926480 (Publication Type: Case Reports, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Antimalarials

Topics

• Humans
• COVID-19
• Malaria (complications, diagnosis, drug therapy)
• Antimalarials (therapeutic use)
• Africa
• Travel