Cerebral malaria

Practical Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 20-29

  White, Nick J ^a,b  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ARTESUNATE; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CYCLOSPORIN; DEFEROXAMINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DEXTRAN; DIAZEPAM; DOPAMINE; DOXYCYCLINE; HEPARIN; MANNITOL; MEFLOQUINE; PARACETAMOL; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PROSTACYCLIN; QUININE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ANTIBODY; UREA;

ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; BLINDNESS; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAIN MALARIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPHORIA; EPILEPTIC STATE; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEARING LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; MAINTENANCE DRUG DOSE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NAUSEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; QT PROLONGATION; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY ARREST; RETINA DISEASE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SUPPOSITORY; TINNITUS;

EID: 1342269002     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-7766.2004.05-199.x     Document Type: Review

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