Jaundice with hepatic dysfunction in P.falciparum malaria

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 363-366

  Abro, Ali Hassan ^a   Ustadi, Abdulla Mahmood ^a   Abro, Hakim Ali ^b   Abdou, Ahmed Saleh ^a   Younis, Nadim Javeed ^a   Akaila, Suhail Ismail ^a  

^a RASHID HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Chandka Medical College Hospital Shaheed Muhtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University Larkana   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Alanine transferase; Hepatic dysfunction; Jaundice; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; ELECTROLYTE; GLUCOSE; SERUM ALBUMIN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CLOTTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MORTALITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SEROLOGY; STAINING; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; VIRUS HEPATITIS; ADULT; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; LIVER DISEASES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAUNDICE; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRIMETHAMINE; RISK FACTORS; SULFADOXINE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249183402     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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