Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of dichloroacetate in children with lactic acidosis due to severe malaria.

Lactic acidosis frequently complicates severe malaria in African children, and is a strong independent predictor of mortality. We tested the hypothesis that sodium dichloroacetate (DCA), an activator of pyruvate dehydrogenase, rapidly reduces hyperlactataemia in this patient population. Eighteen chi...

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Autori principali: Krishna, S, Agbenyega, T, Angus, B, Bedu-Addo, G, Ofori-Amanfo, G, Henderson, G, Szwandt, I, O'Brien, R, Stacpoole, P
Natura: Journal article
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: 1995