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[Evolutive visceral malaria and hyperimmune palustral splenomegaly: a difficult distinction]
J P Gangneux1, S Vignes, Y Poinsignon
1Laboratoire de parasitologie, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris.
Bulletin De La Societe De Pathologie Exotique (1990)
|April 24, 1999
Abstract:
One case of hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly is reported for a Comores Island patient living in France and having thus lost his protective immunity. Plasmodium falciparum was detected in a bone marrow aspiration, whereas peripheral venous blood samples were negative. A three-month treatment of sulfadoxine + pyrimethamine was effective with a complete regression of splenomegaly and biological disorders.