This study is about the changes in the retina (the sensory tissue in the eye responsible for vision) seen in cerebral malaria. Cerebral malaria is a severe complication of malaria which affects the br...

In this retrospective study, Kyle Wilson and colleagues re-evaluate the diagnostic value of malarial retinopathy in pediatric cerebral malaria using data from the Blantyre autopsy study.

Background Previous work has identified that malarial retinopathy (MR) has diagnostic value in cerebral malaria (CM). To improve our understanding of MR as a predictor of cerebral parasite sequestrati...