[Severe malarial infection in adults aged over 18 years: one-year experience].

The severe malarial forms are the main cause of admission to ICU in the majority of African countries, therefore, a cross-sectional descriptive trial was carried out in Meditex Clic in Luanda (January-December 2004) to evaluate the organs mostly affected and how the level of parasitemia influence them. Seriously-ill patients aged over 18 years, with Apache II score exceeding 20 points in Apache II score were included Once the most frequent severe forms of presentation and their association with the level of parasitemia were known, then common complications and mortality were evaluated. Clinical cerebral form (42.