Haemolytic anaemia after oral artemether-lumefantrine treatment in a patient affected by severe imported falciparum malaria

Infection

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 863-865

  De Nardo, P ^a   Oliva, A ^a   Giancola, M L ^a   Ghirga, P ^a   Mencarini, P ^a   Bibas, M ^a   Nicastri, E ^a   Antinori, A ^a   Corpolongo, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; HAPTOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PREDNISONE; QUININE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CLEARANCE; PARASITEMIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; TACHYPNEA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; XEROSTOMIA;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ETHANOLAMINES; FLUORENES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84881088339     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: 14390973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-013-0451-x     Document Type: Article

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