Acute pulmonary insufficiency in falciparum malaria: summary of 12 cases with evidence of disseminated intravascular coagulation

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1974 Jul;23(4):551-9. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.1974.23.551.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Autopsy
  • Blood Coagulation Tests
  • Bone Marrow / pathology
  • Central Venous Pressure
  • Dexamethasone / therapeutic use
  • Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / blood
  • Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / complications
  • Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / drug therapy
  • Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / etiology*
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Hematocrit
  • Hemostasis
  • Heparin / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Malaria / blood
  • Malaria / complications*
  • Malaria / diagnosis
  • Malaria / drug therapy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Plasmodium falciparum*
  • Prognosis
  • Pulmonary Edema / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Edema / etiology
  • Quinine / therapeutic use
  • Radiography
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / blood
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / diagnosis
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology*

Substances

  • Dexamethasone
  • Heparin
  • Quinine