Plasmodium vivax Malaria Presenting with Acute Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome.

Plasmodium vivax Malaria Presenting with Acute Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome. J Assoc Physicians India. 2019 Oct;67(10):86-87 Authors: Das BK, Agasti N, Singh YKS, Midya A Abstract Systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS) is a very rare disorder characterized by hypotension with heamoconcentration, hypoalbuminemia without albuminuria and generalized edema, the etiology of which are snake bites, viral heamorrhagic fever, drugs, sepsis, upper respiratory tract infection, Hanta virus and West Nile virus infection and serum paraproteinemia. Typically, the syndrome manifests in two phases: initial capillary leak phase characterized by edema, serous effusion, hypotension which is followed by phase of volume overload or recruitment phase. Treatment is in the form of fluid replacement, inotropic support and vasopressor therapy during leak phase and diuretics during volume overload phase. Prognosis of this disease is very poor. Here we are presenting a rare case of plasmodium vivax with SCLS. PMID: 31571465 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of the Association of Physicians of India - Category: General Medicine Tags: J Assoc Physicians India Source Type: research