Cardiac function in Ghanaian children with severe malaria.

  • Samuel B Nguah
  • Torsten Feldt
  • Steffi Hoffmann
  • Daniel Pelletier
  • Daniel Ansong
  • Justice Sylverken
  • Parisa Mehrfahr
  • Johanna Herr
  • Christian Thiel
  • Stephan Ehrhardt
  • Gerd-Dieter Burchard
  • Jakob Cramer

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Abstract

The aim was to assess whether impaired cardiac function contributes to symptoms of severe malaria in general or to metabolic acidosis in particular in children living in endemic regions.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number12
ISSN0342-4642
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 22890885