Automated erythrocytapheresis as treatment of severe malaria. Study of 6 patients;Eritrocitaféresis automatizada en el tratamiento de la malaria grave: estudio de 6 pacientes

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 131, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 298-301

  Fernández Fuertes, Luis Fernando ^a   Tapia Martín, Manuel ^a   Ángel Moreno, Alfonso ^a,b   Pisos Alamo, Elena ^a   Carmen Losada Castillo, M ^a   Díaz Cremades, Juan Manuel ^a,b   Pérez Arellano, José Luis ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complicated malaria; Erytrocytapheresis; Severe malaria

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTAPHERESIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; QUININE;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTIMALARIALS; CYTAPHERESIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUININE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 58149119543     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13126113     Document Type: Article

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