The study of complications of vivax malaria in comparison with falciparum malaria in Mumbai.

Introduction: Severe malaria due to P. vivax infection is increasingly observed now a days. Organ failure in vivax malaria is caused by mechanisms of inflammation as well as sequestration.

Moyamoya disease with hypertension in a young adult.

A 13 year old boy presented with recurrent TIAs and was found to have high blood pressure. On investigations he was detected to be Moyamoya disease. Hypertension is known to be associated with Moyamoya disease; the cause being renal artery stenosis.