Delayed-Onset Hemolytic Anemia in Patients with Travel-Associated Severe Malaria Treated with Artesunate, France, 2011-2013 - Volume 21, Number 5-May 2015 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal - CDC - 0 views
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delayed hemolytic events occur in ≈20% of patients with severe imported malaria, and 60% of these patients require blood transfusion
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Delayed-onset anemia (herein referred to as postartesunate delayed-onset hemolysis [PADH] pattern of anemia) has been observed to occur 2–3 weeks after initiation of IV artesunate
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The mechanism of this anemia is hemolytic, as demonstrated by high serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and low plasma haptoglobin levels
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