Serum bilirubin in malaria patients

Ebisawa, I.; Tanabe, K.; Ohara, H.

The serum bilirubin of malaria patients was investigated in an effort to show that jaundice occurring in malaria patients differs from hepatocellular (hepatitis) and obstructive jaundice. 1. The incidence of abnormally high serum total bilirubin (>=1.1 mg/dl) was more frequent in cases of falciparum than in vivax and ovale malaria patients put together (71% vs 49%, P <0.01). The maximum value of a falciparum malaria patient was 42.3 mg/dl.