Standardized documentation and coding of clinically important outcomes is needed. Further research to evaluate effective practices using acute adjunctive and rehabilitation therapies will be aided by outcome measure standardization.
Our results suggest that a poorly controlled inflammatory response determines a bad outcome in African adults suffering of cerebral malaria.
These results open a new avenue for the development of highly selective adjunctive therapies for CM by targeting pathways that regulate host and parasite metabolism.
Thus far, adjuvant therapies have not been shown to improve mortality rates or neurological outcomes in children with CM. For those who survive CM, residual neurological abnormalities are common.
Our findings suggest that the IFNB1 variant, p.Ser34Arg, might be a risk factor for cerebral malaria in Indian populations.
In the present study, we report the presence of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress markers and activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR) in the brain during the pathogenesis of ECM. Specific findings included activation of PKR-like ERkinase, inositol-requiring enzyme 1 and cleavage of activating transcription factor (ATF) 6 indicating the activation of all three major arms of the UPR.
