Pathophysiology of severe malaria in children

Acta Tropica

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-140

  Maitland, Kathryn ^a   Marsh, Kevin ^a  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Acidosis; African children; Falciparum; Malaria; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BICARBONATE; CYTOKINE; INFUSION FLUID; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MANNITOL; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN RADICAL; QUININE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

MALARIA;

AFRICA; ANEMIA; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BRAIN MALARIA; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; FATALITY; FEVER; HEMODYNAMICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYPERLACTATEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPEROSMOLALITY; HYPERPYREXIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RISK; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG EDEMA; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MENINGITIS; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MICROCIRCULATION; MORBIDITY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 1442335013     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2003.11.010     Document Type: Review

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