Open AccessTransfusion-Induced Malaria in a Child after Open Heart Surgery in Korea
Author(s) -
Young Hwan Lee,
Hyun Kyung Lee,
Kyoung Ho Choi,
Jeong Ok Hah,
So Yeo Lim
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of korean medical science/journal of korean medical science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1598-6357
pISSN - 1011-8934
DOI - 10.3346/jkms.2001.16.6.789
Subject(s) - tetralogy of fallot , medicine , malaria , cardiac surgery , surgery , peripheral blood , heart disease , immunology
We had an opportunity to evaluate a child who developed fever approximately two to three weeks after the open heart surgery for tetralogy of Fallot. His peripheral blood smear showed rings and various stages of Plasmodium vivax. The patient had received packed red blood cells during the surgery and postoperative care, one unit of which was later proved sero-positive for malaria. The possibility of malaria should be included in the differential diagnosis of the patients with unexplained fever after multiple blood product transfusions for the open heart surgery.