Methemoglobinemia and adverse events in Plasmodium vivax malaria patients associated with high doses of primaquine treatment

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 188-193

  Carmona Fonseca, Jaime ^a   Álvarez, Gonzalo ^a   Maestre, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHEMOGLOBIN; PRIMAQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVAL PALLOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HERPES LABIALIS; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; JAUNDICE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; NAUSEA; PALLOR; PALM PALLOR; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; SPLENOMEGALY; STANDING; SWEATING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; VOMITING; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; METHEMOGLOBIN; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; PRIMAQUINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59649114199     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.80.188     Document Type: Article

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