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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020

Case Report: An Adolescent Girl with Isolated Neuropsychiatric Features and Apparent Post-Malaria Neurological Syndrome.

Prateek Kumar Panda, Indar Kumar Sharawat, Pramod Kumar Panda

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors.

Prateek Kumar PandaPediatric Neurology Division, Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, India.
Indar Kumar SharawatPediatric Neurology Division, Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, India.
Pramod Kumar PandaPediatric Specialist, District Hospital, Jaipur, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The post-malaria neurological syndrome (PMNS) is an unusual and relatively underreported complication of malaria, which usually occurs after the resolution of acute febrile illness and the patient is free from parasitemia. The clinical spectrum of the PMNS varies from acute-onset cerebellar ataxia to significant encephalopathy with focal deficits resembling acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. Uncommon presentations of PMNS include Guillain-Barre syndrome, postural tremor, or even isolated neuropsychiatric features. Although in a significant proportion of PMNS cases clinical resolution occurs with conservative treatment only, corticosteroids have been used in an attempt to hasten recoveries. Here, we present a case of a 12-year-old girl with acute onset, isolated neuropsychiatric features, following

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Brain DiseasesChildFemaleHumansMalaria, FalciparumMethylprednisoloneNeuroimagingOlanzapinePlasmodium falciparumMethylprednisoloneOlanzapine

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PMID32067632
PMCPMC7204597

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