Two case reports of successful therapeutic erythrocytapheresis as an adjunctive therapy in severe falciparum malaria

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 230-233

  Chung, Hae Sun ^a   Peck, Kyong Ran ^a   Kim, Dae Won ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Erythrocytapheresis; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; BILIRUBIN; HAPTOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AFRICA; APHERESIS; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SMEAR; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTAPHERESIS; HEART RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC ASSAY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SPECIES COMPARISON; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; AFRICA; ANTIMALARIALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ERYTHROCYTES; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950256138     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2009.00754.x     Document Type: Article

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