Glucose and lactate kinetics in children with severe malaria

• Main Authors: Tsiri Agbenyega, Brian J. Angus, George Bedu-Addo, Benjamin Baffoe-Bonnie, Tom Guyton, Peter W. Stacpoole, Sanjeev Krishna
• Other Authors: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/25844
• Institution: Mahidol University

Children with severe malaria often present with lactic acidosis and hypoglycemia. Although both complications independently predict mortality, mechanisms underlying their development are poorly understood. To study these metabolic derangements we sequentially allocated 21 children with falciparum ma...