Estudio de un caso clínico de un paciente con plasmodium falciparum con episodios febriles post cirugía

Abstract

Malaria is a parasitic disease transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito of the genus Anopheles, the only confirmatory laboratory diagnostic methods are by thick blood smear, molecular PCR and rapid tests. At present, this disease continues to affect mostly developing countries, associated with poor controls of health systems, being considered a global health problem. In Ecuador, in order to reduce the cases over the years without having a vaccine, patients with typical malaria symptoms are treated as if they were mild cases with a single antimalarial drug. It proceeds to carry out combinations between drugs and to identify the causative parasite. The descriptive study, based on the method of analysis of a patient with multiple febrile episodes after being admitted for a heart problem and later developing alterations in his hematology after receiving several blood transfusions, it was possible to demonstrate that the hematological alterations he suffered The patient, together with the drug treatment with antimalarials, were correctly related to the diagnosis of infection by P. falciparum and the life cycle of the parasite. After this, the patient recovered successfully and was discharged.