Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27251923›Full record

ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2016

Lesson of the month 1: Post-malaria neurological syndromes.

Michael D O'Brien, Tania Jagathesan

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Article in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Post-malaria neurological syndromes.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Michael D O'BrienUK Civil Aviation Authority, Gatwick Airport South, UK.
Tania JagathesanUK Civil Aviation Authority, Gatwick Airport South, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are three neurological syndromes that may follow -malarial infection after recovery and at a time when the patient is aparasitaemic. An acute disseminated encephalopathy; a cerebellar syndrome; and an acute demyelinating polyneuropathy. This paper reports a 42-year-old male patient who developed encephalopathy.

Indexed as

Brain DiseasesMalaria, FalciparumAdultBrainHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleSyndromeencephalopathyPlasmodium falciparum malariapost-malaria ­syndromes

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PMID27251923
PMCPMC5922712

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