Title |
Retinopathy in severe malaria in Ghanaian children - overlap between fundus changes in cerebral and non-cerebral malaria
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Published in |
Malaria Journal, August 2010
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DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-9-232 |
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Authors |
Vera A Essuman, Christine T Ntim-Amponsah, Birgitte S Astrup, George O Adjei, Jorgen AL Kurtzhals, Thomas A Ndanu, Bamenla Goka |
Abstract |
In malaria-endemic areas, reliably establishing parasitaemia for diagnosis of malaria can be difficult. A retinopathy with some features unique to severe malaria with a predictive value on prognosis, has been described. Detection of this retinopathy could be a useful diagnostic tool. This study was designed to determine the diagnostic usefulness of retinopathy on ophthalmoscopy in severe malaria syndromes: Cerebral malaria (CM) and non-cerebral severe malaria (non-CM), i.e. malaria with respiratory distress (RD) and malaria with severe anaemia (SA), in Ghanaian children. Secondly, to determine any association between retinopathy and the occurrence of convulsions in patients with CM. |
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