cerebral malaria

Understanding Cerebral Malaria: A Life-Threatening Emergency Cerebral malaria represents the most severe neurological complication of Plasmodium falciparum infection, characterized by unarousable coma not attributable to other causes in patients with confirmed malaria. This medical emergency carries a distressingly high mortality rate of 15-25% even with appropriate treatment, making rapid recognition and immediate intervention critical for patient survival 26. Despite accounting for less than […]