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Post-treatment haemolysis is common following oral artemisinin combination therapy of uncomplicated malaria in travellers.

Florian KurthPinkus Tober-LauTilman LingscheidLara BardtkeJohanna KimAndrea AnghebenFederico G GobbiLena MbavuMiriam S StegemannKatrin M HeimFrieder PfäfflinNikolai MennerMariana SchürmannAgata MikolajewskaMartin WitzenrathLeif E SanderBeate MayerThomas Zoller
Published in: Journal of travel medicine (2023)
PTH is common in patients with uncomplicated malaria and oral ACT. While the observed loss of Hb will not be clinically relevant in most cases, it could aggravate pre-existing anaemia and warrants follow-up examinations in populations at risk.
Keyphrases
  • combination therapy
  • plasmodium falciparum
  • urinary tract infection