Delayed cerebellar ataxia as a rare late presenting feature of falciparum malaria – A Case report

Abstract

The majority of malarial neurological manifestations are due to plasmodium falciparum and the most dreaded is cerebral malaria. Post-malarial neurological syndrome (PMNS) is rarely reported in adults (<3%) and children (>10%) and includes a wide variety of neuro-psychiatric manifestations including the rare delayed cerebellar ataxia. We report a case of 60-year-old woman who had a prior history of fever and presented with cerebellitis. The importance of highlighting this case is because in malaria endemic regions awareness of neurological manifestations of malaria must be included in the differential diagnosis of cerebellar ataxia.