Post-malaria neurological syndrome: a rare manifestation of common disease.

Abstract:

:Several systemic and neurological complications can occur with Plasmodium falciparum malaria, of which cerebral malaria is well known and is the most serious. Rarely, patients may suffer a neurological disorder that occurs after complete recovery from P. falciparum infection, an entity known as post-malaria neurological syndrome (PMNS). It is a rare and transient clinical syndrome in which patients with symptomatic malaria infection, after parasitic clearance from the peripheral blood, develop neurological symptoms within 2 months of recovery. We report a case of PMNS manifesting as bilateral common peroneal nerve palsy leading to foot drop.

journal_name

Trop Doct

journal_title

Tropical doctor

authors

Nayak R

doi

10.1177/0049475513486643

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-04-01 00:00:00

pages

86-7

issue

2

eissn

0049-4755

issn

1758-1133

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0049475513486643

journal_volume

43

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