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Volume expansion with albumin compared to Gelofusine in children with severe malaria: results of a controlled trial
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Previous studies have shown that in children with severe malaria, resuscitation with albumin infusion results in a lower mortality than resuscitation with saline infusion. Whether the apparent benefit of albumin is due solely to its colloidal properties, and thus might also be achieved with other synthetic colloids, or due to the many other unique physiological properties of albumin is unknown. As albumin is costly and not readily available in Africa, exa...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pctr.0010021
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+ Wellcome Trust
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/029chgv08
- Funding agency for:
- Newton, CRJC
- Grant:
- 070114
- Programme:
- Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship
+ Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/056ffv270
- Programme:
- Children of St Mary’s Intensive Care
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science
- Journal:
- PLoS Clinical Trials More from this journal
- Volume:
- 1
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- e21
- Publication date:
- 2006-09-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2006-07-14
- DOI:
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1555-5887
- ISSN:
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1555-5887
- Language:
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English
- Pubs id:
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185644
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- Copyright holder:
- Akech et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2006
- Rights statement:
- © 2006 Akech et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Notes:
- A correction to this article is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pctr.0010037
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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