Post-malaria neurological syndrome: a rare manifestation of common disease

作者：Nayak Rajeev^*

来源：Tropical Doctor, 2013, 43(2): 86-87.

DOI：10.1177/0049475513486643

• Post-malaria neurological syndrome
• cerebral malaria
• neurological manifestation of malaria
• Plasmodium falciparum
• foot drop

Several systemic and neurological complications can occur with Plasmodium falciparum malaria, of which cerebral malaria is well known and is the most serious. Rarely, patients may suffer a neurological disorder that occurs after complete recovery from P. falciparum infection, an entity known as post-malaria neurological syndrome (PMNS). It is a rare and transient clinical syndrome in which patients with symptomatic malaria infection, after parasitic clearance from the peripheral blood, develop neurological symptoms within 2 months of recovery. We report a case of PMNS manifesting as bilateral common peroneal nerve palsy leading to foot drop.

• 出版日期2013-4