{"title":"Acute respiratory distress syndrome in Plasmodium falciparum malaria.","authors":"Emel Eryüksel, Derya Gün, Zekaver Odabaşi, Sait Karakurt, Turgay Celikel","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as a complication of malaria infection is rare but with a very high mortality rate. We report the case of a patient who developed high fever, then respiratory distress during a trip to Haiti who was admitted to our hospital and diagnosed with malaria. During recovery the patient developed ARDS in the hospital.</p>","PeriodicalId":520816,"journal":{"name":"The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health","volume":" ","pages":"1179-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as a complication of malaria infection is rare but with a very high mortality rate. We report the case of a patient who developed high fever, then respiratory distress during a trip to Haiti who was admitted to our hospital and diagnosed with malaria. During recovery the patient developed ARDS in the hospital.