<p>A previously healthy 62-year-old woman presented to our clinic after a two-day stay in Equatorial Guinea. Her symptoms included fevers, fatigue and headache. Diagnostics revealed a complicated falciparum malaria. During the course of her antimalaria treatment she developed acral necrosis on all of her extremities, likely because of impaired microcirculation. It is a rare complication of a severe malaria infection captured in these images.</p>

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Acral necrosis in a 62-year-old female after travelling to Equatorial Guinea

  • Aiman Gamal Abdelrahim,
  • Julian Schulze zur Wiesch,
  • Michael Ramharter,
  • Stefan Schmiedel

摘要

A previously healthy 62-year-old woman presented to our clinic after a two-day stay in Equatorial Guinea. Her symptoms included fevers, fatigue and headache. Diagnostics revealed a complicated falciparum malaria. During the course of her antimalaria treatment she developed acral necrosis on all of her extremities, likely because of impaired microcirculation. It is a rare complication of a severe malaria infection captured in these images.