Coagulation status and platelet functions in children with severe falciparum malaria and their correlation of outcome

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 374-378

  Prasad, Rajniti ^a   Das, B K ^a   Pengoria, Rahul ^a   Mishra, Om P ^a   Shukla, Jyoti ^a   Singh, Tej B ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ARTESUNATE; CLINDAMYCIN; QUININE;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; CHILD; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IRRITABILITY; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; OLIGURIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLOR; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SEIZURE; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SHOCK; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBIN TIME; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ANTITHROMBIN III; BLOOD COAGULATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PLATELET COUNT; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBIN TIME;

EID: 73049103821     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmp028     Document Type: Article

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