Recurrence of blackwater fever: triggering of relapses by different antimalarials
- PMID: 9735933
- DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00287.x
Recurrence of blackwater fever: triggering of relapses by different antimalarials
Abstract
Five cases of blackwater fever (BWF) are described, all of whom had a history of recent quinine therapy. In two cases a second haemolytic crisis was induced by halofantrine, in one case also a third. Increasing frequency of this syndrome with its dramatic clinical presentation is to be expected as imported P. falciparum infection, parasite resistance to chloroquine and the use of quinine and other related antimalarials become more frequent.
Comment in
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Acute intravascular haemolysis (blackwater fever) after antimalarial treatment.Trop Med Int Health. 1999 Jan;4(1):72-3. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.0357a.x. Trop Med Int Health. 1999. PMID: 10203176 No abstract available.
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