Cerebral malaria

Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 125-137

  Birbeck, Gretchen L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; DIAZEPAM; DIGOXIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FANSIDAR; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; LINCOMYCIN; LORAZEPAM; PARALDEHYDE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; QUINIDINE; QUININE; TETRACYCLINE; WARFARIN;

ANEMIA; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; BLINDNESS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN MALARIA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG COST; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FLUID THERAPY; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; JAUNDICE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDER; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL DISORDER;

EID: 5444245128     PISSN: 10928480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-004-0022-7     Document Type: Review

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