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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
卷 82, 期 2, 页码 231-234出版社
AMER SOC TROP MED & HYGIENE
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0532
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- National Institutes of Health [NIH/NINDS K23 NS046086-01, NIH/NIAID R01 AI034969-10AI]
- Welcome Trust
The diagnosis of cerebral malaria (CM) is difficult to confirm in endemic regions with limited neurodiagnostics. Accurate diagnoses are critical for trials and outcomes Studies. Findings from an autopsy-based study suggest that identifying malaria retinopathy in children satisfying the standard clinical case definition of CM improves Our ability to accurately diagnose CM in vivo. In a post hoc analysis of a prospective exposure-control study to evaluate CM as a risk factor for epilepsy, we stratified children meeting the standard case definition by their retinopathy Status (presence versus absence) and compared these groups for pre-existing risk factors for epilepsy We also compared them to the concurrently enrolled, non-comatose controls. Children meeting the standard case definition of CM who lacked malaria retinopathy had a higher prevalence of pre-existing developmental problems and family history of epilepsy. This subset of patients may represent children with a pre-existing propensity to adverse neurologic symptoms and outcomes.
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