Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour

              

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Blackwater fever or hemoglobinuric fever is a very dangerous complication of malignant malaria.    Visit: Malaria

 This clinical entity is characterized by acute intravascular hemolysis classically occuring after the re-introduction of quinine in long-term residents in Plasmodium falciparum endemic areas and repeatedly using the product.

This condition is also common in patients who have been subject to excessive fatigue, exhaustion, shock or injury , intercurrent infection, childbirth or alcoholic excess.

Clinical presentation:   Within a few days of onset there are chills, with rigor, high fever, jaundice, vomiting, rapidly progressive anemia and the passage of dark red or black urine.

The cause of hemolytic crises in this disease is unknown. There is rapid and massive destruction of red blood cells with the production of hemoglobinemia, hemoglobunuria, intense jaundice, anuria, and finally death in the majority of cases.

The most probable explanation for blackwater fever is an autoimmune reaction.

Pathology:   Macroscopically and microscopically the kidneys show features similar to those of hemoglobinuric or tubular nephrosis.

The severity of the clinical picture often requires initial management in intensive care unit. Nowadays, however, prognosis is good and the disease usually regresses without after effects.

                       

Abstracts:

A mild blackwater fever.Med Mal Infect. 2006 Jun;36(6):343-345. Epub 2006 Jun 27

Blackwater fever in children, Burundi.Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 ;11(7):1118-20

Epidemiological and clinical aspects of blackwater fever among African children suffering frequent malaria attacks.Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2003 Mar-Apr;97(2):193-7.

Blackwater fever.Presse Med. 2002 ;31(28):1329-34.

Blackwater fever in adults with sickle cell anemia. Two fatal cases.Med Trop (Mars). 2000;60(2):156-8

Recurrence of blackwater fever: triggering of relapses by different antimalarials.Trop Med Int Health. 1998 Aug;3(8):632-9

Blackwater fever and acute renal failure in expatriates in Africa.Ren Fail. 1996 May;18(3):525-31

Blackwater fever in southern Vietnam: a prospective descriptive study of 50 cases.Clin Infect Dis. 1996 Dec;23(6):1274-81

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