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Acute acalculous cholecystitis in a child with Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

Abhijeet Saha1, Prerna Batra, K Y Vilhekar, Pushpa Chaturvedi.   

Abstract

We report a 7-year-old girl who presented with features of acute acalculous cholecystitis. She was found to be positive for Plasmodium falciparum. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of acalculous cholecystitis caused by P. falciparum in a child.

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Year:  2005        PMID： 15949204     DOI： 10.1179/146532805X45755

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Ann Trop Paediatr        ISSN： 0272-4936


  5 in total

1.  Malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax complicated by acalculous cholecystitis.

Authors:  Justin M Curley; Rupal M Mody; Robert A Gasser
Journal:  Am J Trop Med Hyg       Date:  2011-07       Impact factor: 2.345

2.  Acute acalculous cholecystitis in malaria: a review of seven cases from an adult cohort.

Authors:  C Abreu; L Santos; R Poínhos; A Sarmento
Journal:  Infection       Date:  2013-04-02       Impact factor: 3.553

3.  Conservative Management of Acalculous Cholecystitis in a Seven-year-old Child.

Authors:  Jessica Y Ng; Jennie Gu
Journal:  Cureus       Date:  2018-01-20

Review 4.  Acalculous Acute Cholecystitis in Previously Healthy Children: General Overview and Analysis of Pediatric Infectious Cases.

Authors:  Dimitri Poddighe; Matteo Tresoldi; Amelia Licari; Gian Luigi Marseglia
Journal:  Int J Hepatol       Date:  2015-11-11

Review 5.  Acute acalculous cholecystitis in children.

Authors:  Dimitri Poddighe; Vitaliy Sazonov
Journal:  World J Gastroenterol       Date:  2018-11-21       Impact factor: 5.742
  5 in total

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