Acute myeloid leukemia presenting as obstructive jaundice.

carries a high mortality rate [4]. There is no precise data regarding the prevalence of ARDS during malaria infection; however, it is predicted nearly 20-30% of malaria patients admitted to ICU develop ARDS [5]. Proposed mechanism of development of ARDS is pulmonary vasculature dysfunction secondary to liberation of inflammatory mediators which increase vascular permeability, and parasitized RBCs’ sequestration cause injury. Clinically, patients developing sudden onset tachypnea and dyspnea. Life threatening hypoxemia may develop within a few hours. Two of our patients developed ARDS, one died and other required mechanical ventilation.