A patient returned from 3 weeks in India with fever and chills. He is pale with hepatosplenomegaly. Temp 39.9°C, Hb 9.2, platelets 55,000, creatinine 2.1, LDH 583. What is the next step in management?
سؤال مجاني 8 من 10 اليوم · اشترك وكمّل بدون حد
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الإجابة: B. Admit to ICU and give IV artesunate
Fever after travel to India with hemolysis (low Hb, high LDH), thrombocytopenia and a raised creatinine (renal dysfunction) = severe malaria. Severe malaria needs urgent hospital admission and IV artesunate. Chloroquine and oral atovaquone-proguanil are for uncomplicated malaria, and empiric antibiotics do not treat malaria.
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A
ليش غلط
His kidney involvement marks severe malaria with organ dysfunction. In the notes chloroquine appears only as the regimen for chloroquine-sensitive malaria, not as treatment for this severe picture.
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B
ليش صح
Severe malaria needs urgent hospitalisation and IV artesunate 2.4 mg/kg at 0, 12 and 24 hours, then daily until oral therapy is possible. His raised creatinine with hemolysis and low platelets after travel to India is the severe picture this applies to.
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C
ليش غلط
Atovaquone-proguanil appears in the notes as an alternative to first-line artemether-lumefantrine for chloroquine-resistant malaria. His kidney involvement marks severe malaria with organ dysfunction, which is not what these regimens are listed for.
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D
ليش غلط
Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease caused by Plasmodium parasites, so empiric antibiotics would not treat it and would only delay antimalarial therapy.
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- view-material.pdf · p. 175
Inefctious Diseases 🦠.pdf · p. 8 - المحاضرة
- Endemic Infections (Malaria, Brucellosis) · Infectious Diseases · Module B
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- MED42 Compre B