Key Points
The mild ones include fever, chills and headache while fatigue, confusion, seizures and difficulty in breathing are among the severe ones..
Severe falciparum malaria may lead to multiple complications like cerebral malaria (malarial encephalopathy), seizures, hypoglycaemia (low blood sugars), coma, severe anaemia (very low haemoglobin), renal failure, pulmonary edema or ARDS, shock, sepsis, bleeding due to low platelets and coagulopathy and liver dysfunction," says Dr Santosh Kumar Agrawal, Senior Consultant, Internal Medicine, Marengo Asia Hospitals Faridabad...
The cardiovascular manifestations associated with malaria include electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities, myocarditis, pericarditis, pericardial effusion, ischemic disease, arrythmias, conduction disorders, and heart failure..
Malaria may also cause the blood pressure regulatory system to be affected leading to hypertension, which can further contribute to heart failure," says Dr Sahu...
Complicated malaria can cause acute renal failure, which may lead to anaemia related to kidney disease, which may lead to altered hemodynamic fluid state, leading to cardiac stress and thus heart failure," adds Dr Sahu...
