Red blood cell exchange transfusion as an adjunct treatment for severe pediatric falciparum malaria, using automated or manual procedures

Pediatrics

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Boctor, Fouad N ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b WP P230B ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral malaria; Imported tropical diseases; Red blood cell exchange

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; QUINIDINE; QUINIDINE GLUCONATE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN MALARIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; BLOOD; ERYTHROCYTE; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; PARASITEMIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ERYTHROCYTES; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA;

EID: 33644694048     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-0314     Document Type: Article

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