RESUMEN
Only a few late cases of Plasmodium ovale presentation have been reported in literature. We describe two cases of late P. ovale presentation occurring in two French military personnel, 47 and 69 months, respectively, after a stay in Côte d'Ivoire and in the absence of new intercurrent malaria exposure.
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Cloroquina/administración & dosificación , Malaria , Plasmodium ovale , Primaquina/administración & dosificación , Adulto , Antimaláricos/administración & dosificación , Côte d'Ivoire/epidemiología , Francia , Interacciones Huésped-Parásitos , Humanos , Malaria/sangre , Malaria/tratamiento farmacológico , Malaria/epidemiología , Malaria/etiología , Malaria/fisiopatología , Masculino , Personal Militar , Plasmodium ovale/efectos de los fármacos , Plasmodium ovale/aislamiento & purificación , Plasmodium ovale/fisiología , Factores de Tiempo , Viaje , Resultado del TratamientoRESUMEN
The splenic complications of acute malaria include two different prognostic and treatment entities: splenic infarction and splenic rupture. This is the first case of splenic infarction during an acute malaria due to Plasmodium ovale in a 34-year-old man. As in the majority other described cases of splenic infarction, the course was spontaneously favourable, suggesting that this complication was relatively benign compared to splenic rupture, which is life-threatening and usually necessitating surgery.
