Cardiac function in Ghanaian children with severe malaria

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2032-2041

  Nguah, Samuel B ^a,b   Feldt, Torsten ^c,d   Hoffmann, Steffi ^e   Pelletier, Daniel ^e   Ansong, Daniel ^a,b   Sylverken, Justice ^a   Mehrfar, Parisa ^e   Herr, Johanna ^e   Thiel, Christian ^e   Ehrhardt, Stephan ^c,f   Burchard, Gerd D ^c,e   Cramer, Jakob P ^c,e  

^a KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac function; Cardiac index; Plasmodium falciparum; Severe malaria

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INDEX; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TISSUE PERFUSION;

ACIDOSIS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84872087396     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-012-2676-z     Document Type: Article

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