Abstract
The frequency and clinical characteristics of plasmodium infection were reported in 420 renal transplant recipients who were followed in the Transplantation Unit and Out-Patient Clinic of the Medical School of Istanbul. Plasmodium infection was diagnosed in eleven (9 male, 2 female) of the 420 patients (2.6%). Ten of the patients were transplanted in India, and one in our institution. The mean duration between the transplantation and the diagnosis of malaria was 21.7 + 44.4 days in patients who were transplanted in India. All of the patients were taking triple immunosuppressive drugs (CsA, AZA, PRED). Plasmodium falciparum was diagnosed in 6 patients, P vivax in 1 patient and P malariae in 1 patient. Also mixed infection with P falciparum and P malariae was diagnosed in 3 patients. After definite diagnosis, the patients were hospitalized. Chloroquine phosphate plus primaquine phosphate was administered for P vivax infection, whereas chloroquine phosphate alone was given for P falciparum and P malariae infection as a first line antimalarial therapy. As a result of therapy, infection improved clinically and the plasmodia disappeared rapidly from the thick blood film in 10 of the patients. Severe hemolysis and acute renal failure ...Continue Reading
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