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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2024

Revising the Interpretation of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Examinations in Pediatric Cerebral Malaria.

Nicole F O'Brien, Taty Tshimanga

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 authors.

Nicole F O'BrienNationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Taty TshimangaHopital Pediatrique de Kalembe Lembe, Universite de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Funding

Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography Clinical and Research Centers of Excellence in Sub-Saharan AfricaR21HD106252 · NICHD · RESEARCH INST NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSP · PI OBRIEN, NICOLE · 2021 to 2022
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NICHD NIH HHS R21 HD106252
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cerebral malaria (CM) is a devastating disease globally. Transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) has identified five different phenotypes of deranged cerebrovascular hemodynamics in children with CM, each associated with different outcomes. For TCD to be used as a point of care neurodiagnostic and neuromonitoring tool in CM patients, proper interpretation of examinations is paramount. Comparison of measured cerebral blood flow velocities (CBFVs) to age-matched normative values is needed to interpret any pediatric TCD study. Until recently, normative values in African children did not exist, so previous work reported the frequency of CM phenotypes by classifying studies compared with normative values of European children. Now that normative TCD values in healthy African children have been established, we performed this retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data to determine phenotype frequency and associated outcomes in children with CM by comparing CBFV values to these contemporary controls.

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Cerebrovascular CirculationMalaria, CerebralUltrasonography, Doppler, TranscranialBlood Flow VelocityChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansInfantMaleRetrospective Studies

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PMID39137754
PMCPMC11448540

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