Overwhelming parasitemia with Plasmodium falciparum infection in a patient receiving infliximab therapy for rheumatoid arthritis.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
We describe a 45-year-old woman receiving infliximab therapy for rheumatoid arthritis who developed an overwhelming Plasmodium falciparum infection with cerebral malaria. Physicians should be aware that patients receiving tumor necrosis factor inhibitors, such as infliximab, may be at increased risk of life-threatening malarial infections.
Medical subject headings
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Antirheumatic Agents
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid
- Malaria, Cerebral
- Malaria, Falciparum
- Plasmodium falciparum
- Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha