Intensive care admissions for children with imported malaria in the United kingdom

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2010 Dec;29(12):1140-2. doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181fca9f9.

Abstract

This study describes 977 children with imported malaria in England and Wales between 2004 and 2008, focusing on 29 (3.0%) patients admitted to intensive care, of whom 10 had cerebral malaria, 4 required inotropes, and 1 had concurrent septicemia. The remaining 14 were admitted for monitoring only. None died, but 1 child developed cerebellar infarction.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Critical Care*
  • Emigration and Immigration
  • England / epidemiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Malaria, Cerebral / epidemiology*
  • Malaria, Cerebral / mortality
  • Malaria, Cerebral / pathology
  • Malaria, Cerebral / therapy*
  • Male
  • Sepsis / epidemiology*
  • Sepsis / mortality
  • Sepsis / pathology
  • Sepsis / therapy*
  • Travel
  • Wales / epidemiology