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Exchange Transfusion for Treatment of Severe Malaria No Longer Recommended

July 15, 2013 By Malaria.com Leave a Comment

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) no longer recommends the use of exchange transfusion (ET) as an adjunct to antimalarial drugs for the treatment of severe malaria. ET is a procedure in which a portion of blood from the infected patient is removed and replaced with uninfected blood. Previously, the rationale for the use of ET in severe malaria was that ET removed infected cells … [Read more...]

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