Fatal Myocarditis in Course of Plasmodium falciparum Infection: Case Report and Review of Cardiac Complications in Malaria

Table 2

Cases of cardiac complications in severe malaria (reported as of January 2011).

Reference	No. of cases	Organism	Concomitant morbidity	Clinical setting	Outcome
Herrera [9]	1	P. vivax	None	ischaemic myocarditis	Death
Mohsen et al. [3]	1	P. falciparum	None	acute myocarditis	Cure
Wichmann et al. [4]	2	P. falciparum	Unknown	myocarditis (1 pt); unknown (1 pt)	Death; Death
Tripathy et al. [10]	1	P. falciparum	N/A	myocarditis	N/A
Wennicke et al. [11]	1	P. falciparum	Unknown	acute heart failure	Death
Kim et al. [12]	1	P. vivax	None	myocarditis	Cure
Kumar et al. [13]	2	P. falciparum	None	acute heart failure (1 pt); ventricular fibrillation (1pt)	Cure; Death
Present case	1	P. falciparum	Obesity, increased alcohol intake	myocarditis	Death