Malaria: A disease that should not be forgotten in emergency service; Case Report
Selim Bozkurt1, Ömer Faruk Kökoğlu2, Mehmet Okumuş1, Mehmet Fatih İnci3, Selma Güler2
1Department Of Emergency, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Faculty Of Medicine, Kahramanmaras, Turkey
2Department Of Infectious Diseases, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Faculty Of Medicine, Kahramanmaras, Turkey
3Department Of Radiology, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Faculty Of Medicine, Kahramanmaras, Turkey
Keywords: Fever, travel history, malaria
Abstract
Fever is one of the frequent reasons of presentation to the emergency services. Patient history plays an important role in the diagnosis of diseases which causes fever. Malaria is the common cause among patients presenting with fever after travelling abroad. In patients with fever presenting to emergency service a history of travel should be questioned and malaria should be considered in differential diagnosis. In this study a 29 years old male patient is presented which we have diagnosed malaria after he returned with fever to Turkey from Sudan, he was a worker in an endemic region of Falciparum malaria.