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Automated red blood cell exchange as an adjunctive treatment for severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria at the Vienna General Hospital in Austria: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Severe falciparum malaria is associated with considerable rates of mortality, despite the administration of appropriate anti-malarial treatment. Since overall survival is associated with total parasite biomass, blood exchange transfusion has been proposed as a potential method to rapidly...

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Autores principales: Auer-Hackenberg, Lorenz, Staudinger, Thomas, Bojic, Andja, Locker, Gottfried, Leitner, Gerda C, Graninger, Wolfgang, Winkler, Stefan, Ramharter, Michael, Worel, Nina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22564543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-158