1. Cerebral malaria in children in South Sudan: 8 years experience in 261 cases.
- Author
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Bartkovjak M, Ianetti R, Kutna K, Ondrusova A, Kniezova Z, Kalavsky M, Mykyta Y, Holeckova K, Vilmova M, Taziarova M, Benca J, Seckova S, Dubai A, Pivarnik M, Duris M, Bukovinova P, Kralova J, Ocenas M, Uhercik L, Bauer F, Huttova M, Kovac M, and Shahum A
- Subjects
- Artemether, Artemisinins therapeutic use, Child, Preschool, Clindamycin therapeutic use, Comorbidity, Drug Therapy, Combination, Fever epidemiology, Humans, Infant, Malaria, Cerebral drug therapy, Malaria, Cerebral mortality, Quinine therapeutic use, Retrospective Studies, Seizures epidemiology, Sudan epidemiology, Antimalarials therapeutic use, Coma epidemiology, Malaria, Cerebral epidemiology
- Abstract
Two hundred-sixty-one (261) cases of cerebral malaria within last 8 years from 3 tropical clinics in South Sudan were analyzed. Coma was present at 79.8% and convulsions at 25.6%. However 90.5% of children were cured. Commonest antimalarial drugs used were intravenous quinine, clindamycin, artesunate and artemeter.
- Published
- 2007