Efficacy and safety of quinine loading dose in patients with severe falciparum malaria at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-31

  Tariq, Muhammad ^a   Saleem, Taimur ^a   Ullah, Hamid ^a   Mehraj, Vikram ^a   Samdani, Abdul Jawwad ^a   Kazmi, Syeda Hena ^a   Ayaz, Syed Imran ^a   Riaz, Mehmood ^a   Patel, Mohammed Junaid ^a   Akhtar, Jaweed ^a   Beg, Mohammed Asim ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Loading dose; Pakistan; Quinine; Severe falciparum malaria

Indexed keywords

QUININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAKISTAN; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITEMIA; QT PROLONGATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TINNITUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITEMIA; QUININE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651228615     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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