SIGNS OF SEVERE AND COMPLICATED MALARIA

• Cerebral malaria, defined as unarousable coma not attributable to any other cause in a patient with falciparum malaria.

• Generalized convulsions.

• Normocytic anaemia.

• Renal failure.

• Hypoglycaemia.

• Fluid, electrolyte and acid-base disturbances.

• Pulmonary oedema.

• Circulatory collapse and shock (“algid malaria”).

• Spontaneous bleeding (disseminated intravascular coagulation).

• Hyperpyrexia.

• Hyperparasitaemia.

• Malarial haemoglobinuria.

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