Cardiac involvement in malaria: An overlooked important complication

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 232-235

  Mishra, Saroj K ^a   Behera, Prativa K ^a   Satpathi, Sanghamitra ^a  

^a ISPAT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Heart; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Severe malaria

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; QUININE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOXICITY; COMORBIDITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROCIRCULATION; PATHOGENESIS; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CYTOKINES; HEART; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SHOCK, SEPTIC; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 84884740665     PISSN: 09729062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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