To epidemiology and clinic of malarial coma (Encephalitis malarica)

It seems that none of the diseases has such a multifaceted and variegated clinical picture as malaria. There is no system, there is no organ that in one way or another would not show its response to the malaria toxin. Among this polymorphism of clinical symptoms of malaria, the infinite variety of its complications, some deserve special attention. These include complications from the nervous system. These complications can be: 1) from the central nervous system, 2) from the peripheral nervous system and 3) from the autonomic nervous system. Complications from the peripheral nervous system are manifested by neuralgia, neuritis, polyneuritis. From the autonomic nervous system: sweating, pallor, lacrimation, etc. From the central nervous system, complications manifest themselves in the form of hemiplegia; paralysis, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis type syndrome, meningitis, encephalitis.