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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 31(1), 1982, pp. 163-165
Copyright © 1982 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Quartan Malaria Following Splenectomy 36 Years after Infection*

Hiroki Tsuchida, Koichiro Yamaguchi, Shunichi Yamamoto AND Isao Ebisawa
Department of Nephrology, Chiba Social Insurance Hospital, Chiba 280, and Department of Public Health, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo 143, Japan

Quartan malaria developed following splenectomy 36 Years after infection in a 63-year-old hypertensive man. The patient underwent nephrectomy because of left renal calculus, increasing proteinuria and hypertension. Splenectomy was done additionally because metastasis of renal tumor to the spleen was suspected at the operation. Attention is drawn to the long silent infection with Plasmodium malariae and to the importance of the spleen in malaria.

Accepted for publication September 29, 1981.


* Address reprint requests to: Dr. Isao Ebisawa, Department of Public Health, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16 Omori-nishi, Otaku, Tokyo, Japan 143.






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