Journal article
Cardiotoxicity of antimalarial drugs.
- Abstract:
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There are consistent differences in cardiovascular state between acute illness in malaria and recovery that prolong the electrocardiographic QT interval and have been misinterpreted as resulting from antimalarial cardiotoxicity. Of the different classes of antimalarial drugs, only the quinolines, and structurally related antimalarial drugs, have clinically significant cardiovascular effects. Drugs in this class can exacerbate malaria-associated orthostatic hypotension and several have been sh...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Lancet. Infectious diseases
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- 549-558
- Publication date:
- 2007-08-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1474-4457
- ISSN:
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1473-3099
- Source identifiers:
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40417
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:40417
- UUID:
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uuid:43812b2c-d846-44e2-8663-86db5cbdab4c
- Local pid:
- pubs:40417
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2007
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