Clinical review: Severe malaria

Critical Care

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 315-323

  Trampuz, Andrej ^a   Jereb, Matjaz ^b   Muzlovic, Igor ^b   Prabhu, Rajesh M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Plasmodium falciparum; Severe malaria; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ARTEETHER; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMETIN; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ARTESUNATE; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CHLOROQUINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEFEROXAMINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIHYDROARTEMISININ; DOXYCYCLINE; HALOFANTRINE; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; MEFLOQUINE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; QUINIDINE GLUCONATE; QUININE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; BITTER TASTE; BLEEDING; BLINDNESS; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CARDIOTOXICITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG METABOLISM; DYSPHORIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FATALITY; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; TINNITUS; TISSUE PERFUSION; TRAVEL; TREMOR;

ANTIMALARIALS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0042196090     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc2183     Document Type: Review

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