Effects of weight, age, and time on artemether-lumefantrine associated ototoxicity and evidence of irreversibility

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 71-76

  Toovey, Stephen ^a  

^a NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artemether lumefantrine; Hearing loss; Malaria; Neurotoxicity; Ototoxicity

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MOZAMBIQUE; OTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; AUDIOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; FLUORENES; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOZAMBIQUE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 32544458350     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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