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Parasite Case of the Week 13

Welcome back to the Parasite Case of the Week!  I post a new case every Monday, along with the answer to the previous week’s case.  Here is our new case for this week.

The following sections of placenta are from a still-borne infant with severe growth retardation. On gross examination, the placenta was smaller than normal and had several infarcts. Microscopic examination showed erythrocytes with brown pigment and inclusions, as well as chronic villitis, synctial knotting, and pigment in trophoblast and WBCs. Diagnosis? For the hematopathologists in the audience, there is another diagnosis present as well…

can’t say that I can tell what the pigment and inclusions mean, but I think it’s safe to say that there are sickled erythrocytes present!

i agree !!
Pl. vivax rings and early trophozoites and,
Pl.falciparum rings ?

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