Blackwater fever is a complication of malaria in which red blood cells burst in the bloodstream (hemolysis), releasing hemoglobin directly into the blood vessels and into the urine, frequently leading to kidney failure. The disease was first linked to malaria by the Sierra Leonean physician Dr John Farrell Easmon in his 1884 pamphlet entitled The ...
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one of the less common yet most dangerous complications of malaria. It occurs almost exclusively with infection from the parasite Plasmodium ...
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A condition that results from the presence of haemoglobin in the urine (haemoglobinuria) following infection with Falciparum malaria. ... Symptoms include fever, tender and enlarged liver and spleen, dark urine, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and jaundice. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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a severe complication of malaria characterized by intravascular hemolysis, hemoglobinuria, renal failure, and passage of dark brown or red urine, seen in association with intermittent quinine therapy, with Plasmodium falciparum infection in the nonimmune, or with interrupted exposure in the partially immune.
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Severe form of malaria in which the urine contains so much blood it appears black
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. hemoglobinuria resulting from severe hemolysis occurring in falciparum malaria. Synonyms: malarial hemoglobinuria
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Blackwater fever is a rare and serious complication of chronic malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum following quinine treatment and characterised by massive destruction of the red blood cells, producing dark red or blackish urine. The patient has fever, rigors, jaundice, vomitting, pain in the loins and thirst. Recovery may follow, or death may ...
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n] - severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine
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noun severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine
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a severe form of malaria characterized by kidney damage and hemoglobinuria resulting in urine that is dark red or black.
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