eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | malaria |
| Comorbidity | C0035309|retinopathy |
| Sentences | 7 |
| PubMedID- 21056005 | Between 2005 and 2007, we did a prospective cohort study of survivors of cerebral malaria with malaria retinopathy in blantyre, malawi. |
| PubMedID- 20704742 | Finally, this study used bedside ophthalmoscopy to test the clinical relevance of retinopathy in patients with severe malaria without fundus photography. |
| PubMedID- PMC2963213 | Severity of retinopathy correlated with severity of malaria, coma recovery time and markers of, and rheological factors important in, microcirculatory obstruction. |
| PubMedID- 21212217 | Studies by looareesuwan and others14 and davis and others15 using direct ophthalmoscopy reported the prevalence of retinopathy in patients with cerebral malaria as 14.6% and 28%, respectively, predominantly as retinal hemorrhages. |
| PubMedID- 24578549 | The retina may be a good source of surrogate markers of cerebrovascular injury because paediatric cerebral malaria is associated with a retinopathy (‘malarial retinopathy’) that accurately predicts cerebral sequestration (taylor et al., 2004), correlates with severity of brain involvement (white et al., 2001), and is associated with mortality (beare et al., 2004). |
| PubMedID- 20595476 | The case fatality rate for patients who had cerebral malaria with retinopathy was 16.7%, whereas in the cerebral malaria group without retinopathy, it was 17.9%. |
| PubMedID- 25686067 | The retinopathy in association with malaria fever described so far includes retinal hemorrhages, vessel changes, retinal discoloration/whitening and papilledema. |
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