Antimalarial Drug Toxicity: A Review

Drug Safety

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-61

  Taylor, W Robert J ^a,b   White, Nicholas J ^c,d  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ATOVAQUONE; BENFLUMETOL; CHLOROQUINE; HALOFANTRINE; MEFLOQUINE; PRIMAQUINE; PROGUANIL; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUININE; SULFADOXINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTHRALGIA; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; ATAXIA; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLINDNESS; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVULSION; CRYSTALLURIA; DEPIGMENTATION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPHORIA; EOSINOPHILIA; EPIDERMOLYSIS; EPILEPSY; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GLOSSITIS; HAIR LOSS; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HEMATURIA; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INSOMNIA; LICHEN PLANUS; LIVER TOXICITY; MALAISE; MALARIA; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; MELENA; MENTAL DISEASE; MOUTH ULCER; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEPHRITIS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NIGHTMARE; PALLOR; PANCREATITIS; PEMPHIGOID; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDER; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREGNANCY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; PSYCHOSIS; PUSTULAR PSORIASIS; RASH; RETINA INJURY; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINOPATHY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SCOTOMA; SHOCK; SIDE EFFECT; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SKIN ALLERGY; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TINNITUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS; VERTIGO; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

EID: 0442307497     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002018-200427010-00003     Document Type: Review

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