Blood pressure build-up from white blood cells may cause cerebral malaria death

4 diciembre 2014

Intracranial hypertension — increased blood pressure inside the head — can predict a child’s risk of death from malaria. A study now reports that accumulation of white blood cells impairs the blood flow out of the brain and causes blood pressure increases in mice with experimentally induced cerebral malaria.
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