[A contribution to the intravascular coagulation in cerebral malaria (author's transl)].
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It is reported about a 56 years old woman returned from Mombaza, who was brought into hospital with high fever, jaundice and somnolence and died forty hours later in coma, anuria und hematemesis. The diagnosis of cerebral malaria resulted from autopsy. By the histological examination numerous microthrombi were observed exceptionally in certain cerebral areas, which are more vulnerable by hypoxia as other regions of the brain and other organs. The pathophysiology and the clinical importance of this correlationship are discussed.