Lactic acidosis in Gabonese children with severe malaria is unrelated to dehydration

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1719-1725

  Jarvis, J N ^a,c   Planche, T ^a,c   Bicanic, T ^a,c   Dzeing Ella, A ^b   Kombila, M ^b   Issifou, S ^c   Borrmann, S ^c,d   Kremsner, P G ^c,d   Krishna, S ^a,c  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES DE LA SANTÉ   (Gabon)

^c ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LACTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BLANTYRE COMA SCALE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY FLUID COMPARTMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREATHING RATE; CHILD; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GABON; HUMAN; HYPERLACTATEMIA; IMPEDANCE; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TOTAL BODY WATER;

ACIDOSIS, LACTIC; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GABON; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; QUININE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 33744787041     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504329     Document Type: Article

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