Considerations on the use of adjunct red blood cell exchange transfusion in the treatment of severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 875-880

  Shelat, Suresh G ^a,b   Lott, Jason P ^a,b   Braga, Matthew S ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ARTEMISININ; CLINDAMYCIN; QUINIDINE; QUININE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AFRICA; APHERESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CYTAPHERESIS; ERYTHROCYTE; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEVER; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OTITIS MEDIA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANTIMALARIALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; AUTOMATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CREATINE KINASE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARASITEMIA; PROTEIN C; QUINIDINE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950218168     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02530.x     Document Type: Article

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