Hemolysis after Oral Artemisinin Combination Therapy for Uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum Malaria
Florian Kurth
, Tilman Lingscheid, Florian Steiner, Miriam S. Stegemann, Sabine Bélard, Nikolai Menner, Peter Pongratz, Johanna Kim, Horst von Bernuth, Beate Mayer, Georg Damm, Daniel Seehofer, Abdulgabar Salama, Norbert Suttorp, and Thomas Zoller
Author affiliations: Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany (F. Kurth, T. Lingscheid, F. Steiner, M.S. Stegemann, S. Bélard, N. Menner, P. Pongratz, J. Kim, H. von Bernuth, B. Mayer, G. Damm, D. Seehofer, A. Salama, N. Suttorp, T. Zoller); Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland (T. Zoller)
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Figure 3. Laboratory values over time for exemplary patients with and without posttreatment hemolysis after treatment with oral artemisinin-based combination therapy for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. A) Patient without posttreatment hemolysis, B) patient with compensated posttreatment hemolysis, and C) patient with uncompensated posttreatment hemolysis. Hb, hemoglobin; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase.
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