To the clinic of malarial nephropathy in children

The issue of malarial lesions of internal organs, the so-called "visceral malaria", has been raised in the medical literature for a long time, but it was mainly about lesions of the nervous and hepatolienal systems, hematopoietic organs; we find only cursory mentions of malarial kidney damage in classical works on malaria, and they were usually treated as rare cases. Such a single case was described, for example, by Zeitlin in 1902. Isolated cases of malarial nephritis were also described by some foreign authors — Soldatov and Gorsky in Bulgaria (quoted from Myasnikov); 6 cases of malaria nephritis in 1933-1934 were described by Abdulaev and Gussin-Zade in Azerbaijan. In 1928, Akovbyants described 8 cases of malarial nephropathy; on the basis of his observations, he came to the conclusion that 1) malaria, along with other infectious diseases, can cause damage to the renal tissue; 2) kidney damage of malarial origin initially has the character of nephrosis, then, over time, the inflammatory process joins the degenerative changes.