Disease-associated QT-shortage versus quinine associated QT-prolongation: Age dependent ECG-effects in Ghanaian children with severe malaria

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Roggelin, Louise ^a   Pelletier, Daniel ^a   Hill, Josephine N ^a   Feldt, Torsten ^b,c   Hoffmann, Steffi ^a   Ansong, Daniel ^d,e   Sylverken, Justice ^d,e   Burhenne, Jürgen ^f   Fischer Herr, Johanna ^a   Mehrfar, Parisa ^a   Thiel, Christian ^a   Burchard, Gerd D ^a,b   Nguah, Samuel B ^d   Cramer, Jakob P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^d KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

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

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Chloroquine; ECG; Heart; Malaria; QT interval; Quinine; Wernicke formula

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; 4 [(7 CHLORO 4 QUINOLINYL)AMINO] 1 PENTANOL; AMODIAQUINE; CHLOROQUINE; DEETHYLCHLOROQUINE; DESETHYLAMIODIAQINE; QUININE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ANEMIA; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COLLAPSE; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG URINE LEVEL; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GHANA; GHANAIAN (PEOPLE); HEALTH STATUS; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERLACTATEMIA; HYPERPARASITEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; PARASITEMIA; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; QT PROLONGATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SHORT QT INTERVAL; T WAVE; TACHYCARDIA; URINALYSIS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; COMPLICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; QUININE;

EID: 84903690775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-219     Document Type: Article

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