Trop Geogr Med
Institute of Neurology, Nijmegen University Hospital, The Netherlands.
Published: July 1993
A male patient presented with malaria tertiana due to Plasmodium vivax. He developed a severe attack of rhabdomyolysis with acute renal failure. The patient was treated successfully with chloroquine medication. After complete recovery further muscle study revealed a deficiency of myoadenyl deaminase (MAD). The infection with P. vivax probably has been the triggering factor in the process of muscle necrosis, because the patient also had MAD deficiency.
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