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Treatment of suspected hyper-reactive malarial splenomegaly (HMS) in pregnancy with mefloquine.
- Abstract:
- Malaria infections in pregnancy are associated with adverse outcomes for both mother and child. There are few data on hyper-reactive malarial splenomegaly, an aberrant immunological response to chronic or recurrent malaria in pregnancy. This retrospective assessment reviewed the impact of mefloquine treatment on pregnant women with suspected hyper-reactive malarial splenomegaly in an area of low malaria transmission in the 1990s, showing significant reductions in spleen size and anemia and anti-malarial antibody titers without any notable negative effect on treated women or their newborns.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0706
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- American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Journal:
- American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene More from this journal
- Volume:
- 90
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 609-611
- Publication date:
- 2014-04-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-01-01
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1476-1645 and 0002-9637
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24591439
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English
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- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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- This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's Re-use License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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