Parenteral artesunate has become the choice treatment of cases of high parasitemia malaria. We report the case of an Italian man with a high malaria parasitemia who promptly improved with intravenous artenusate, but who developed a delayed severe hemolytic anemia associated with intravenous artesunate treatment, requiring blood trasfusions.
Keywords: Severe malaria; anemia; artesunate treatment; high parasitemia.
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