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Lactate clearance as a prognostic marker of mortality in severely ill febrile children in East Africa

BACKGROUND: Hyperlactataemia (HL) is a biomarker of disease severity that predicts mortality in patients with sepsis and malaria. Lactate clearance (LC) during resuscitation has been shown to be a prognostic factor of survival in critically ill adults, but little data exist for African children livi...

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Autores principales: Aramburo, A., Todd, Jim, George, Elizabeth C., Kiguli, Sarah, Olupot-Olupot, Peter, Opoka, Robert O., Engoru, Charles, Akech, Samuel O., Nyeko, Richard, Mtove, George, Gibb, Diana M., Babiker, Abdel G., Maitland, Kathryn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5844084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29519240
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1014-x