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Case Reports
. 2015 Jan 1:20:1.
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2015201.5568. eCollection 2015.

Hemiparesis post cerebral malaria

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Hemiparesis post cerebral malaria

Oumkaltoum Taiaa et al. Pan Afr Med J. .

Abstract

Cerebral malaria is one of the most serious complications in the Plasmodium falciparum infection. In endemic areas, the cerebral malaria interested mainly children. The occurrence in adults is very rare and most interested adult traveling in tropical zones. This case report describes a motor deficit post cerebral malaria in a young adult traveling in malaria endemic area. This complication has been reported especially in children and seems very rare in adults.

Keywords: Brain; cerebral malaria; magnetic resonance imaging; plasmodium falciparum.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
(A, B, C) white matter changes. The first examination, 3 days after the onset of cerebral malaria, shows diffuses hyperintensities on T2, T2- FLAIR-weighted and the SWI sequences images in the centrum semiovale, periventricular, frontal and occipital white matter, and in the cerebellum; (D) with central microhemorrhages in the occipital, frontal and right semiovale centrum white matter lesions on Gradient Echo (T2*) sequence
Figure 2
Figure 2
(A,B) at follow-up examination, Two week after the onset of illness. In comparison with the first examination, T2-FLAIR images show resolution of cerebellum hyperintensities,and minimal decrease in the size of the lesion of occipital, frontal and right semiovale centrum white matter; (C) the unenhanced microhaemorrhagic lesionson contrast-enhanced T1-weighted images

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