Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: UMLS:C0024530 (malaria)
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A 65-year-old woman was rehospitalized for increasing mental confusion 16 days after open heart surgery for mitral stenosis. A diagnosis of transfusion-acquired falciparum malaria was made from a routine peripheral blood smear 24 hours after admission. Because progressive encephalopathy developed while she was receiving antimalarial drugs, a therapeutic exchange transfusion was performed. Clinical improvement occurred promptly during the exchange, and the patient went on to complete recovery from her malaria. The putative blood donor involved met the currently accepted standards for blood donors.
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PMID:Transfusion malaria: treatment with exchange transfusion after delayed diagnosis. 703 44

Under analysis was the course of the postoperative period in 216 patients subjected to closed mitral commissurotomy. The risk of local infectious complications was found to be higher in patients with the IVth stage of mitral stenosis having lymphopenia, hypopotassemia, hyponatremia, hypochromic anemia, higher ESR in the postoperative period who had malaria and infectious hepatitis in the medical history.
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PMID:[Certain factors increasing the risk of local infectious complications following closed mitral commissurotomy]. 742 54