Retinopathy in severe malaria in Ghanaian children - Overlap between fundus changes in cerebral and non-cerebral malaria

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Essuman, Vera A ^a   Ntim Amponsah, Christine T ^a   Astrup, Birgitte S ^b   Adjei, George O ^a   Kurtzhals, Jorgen Al ^b   Ndanu, Thomas A ^a   Goka, Bamenla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PAPILLEDEMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RETINA MACULA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA VEIN; RETINOPATHY; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FOLLOW UP; GHANA; HOSPITALIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA; NEGRO; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RETINA DISEASE;

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; QUININE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANTIMALARIALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROGNOSIS; QUININE; RETINAL DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77955352495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-232     Document Type: Article

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