Pregnancy outcomes and risk of placental malaria after artemisinin-based and quinine-based treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in pregnancy: a WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis

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Title: Pregnancy outcomes and risk of placental malaria after artemisinin-based and quinine-based treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in pregnancy: a WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis
Authors: Makoto Saito, Rashid Mansoor, Kalynn Kennon, Anupkumar R. Anvikar, Elizabeth A. Ashley, Daniel Chandramohan, Lauren M. Cohee, Umberto D’Alessandro, Blaise Genton, Mary Ellen Gilder, Elizabeth Juma, Linda Kalilani-Phiri, Irene Kuepfer, Miriam K. Laufer, Khin Maung Lwin, Steven R. Meshnick, Dominic Mosha, Atis Muehlenbachs, Victor Mwapasa, Norah Mwebaza, Michael Nambozi, Jean-Louis A. Ndiaye, François Nosten, Myaing Nyunt, Bernhards Ogutu, Sunil Parikh, Moo Kho Paw, Aung Pyae Phyo, Mupawjay Pimanpanarak, Patrice Piola, Marcus J. Rijken, Kanlaya Sriprawat, Harry K. Tagbor, Joel Tarning, Halidou Tinto, Innocent Valéa, Neena Valecha, Nicholas J. White, Jacher Wiladphaingern, Kasia Stepniewska, Rose McGready, Philippe J. Guérin
Source: BMC Medicine, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2020)
Publisher Information: BMC, 2020.
Publication Year: 2020
Collection: LCC:Medicine
Subject Terms: Falciparum malaria, Pregnancy, Treatment, Safety, Stillbirth, Small for gestational age, Medicine
More Details: Abstract Background Malaria in pregnancy, including asymptomatic infection, has a detrimental impact on foetal development. Individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis was conducted to compare the association between antimalarial treatments and adverse pregnancy outcomes, including placental malaria, accompanied with the gestational age at diagnosis of uncomplicated falciparum malaria infection. Methods A systematic review and one-stage IPD meta-analysis of studies assessing the efficacy of artemisinin-based and quinine-based treatments for patent microscopic uncomplicated falciparum malaria infection (hereinafter uncomplicated falciparum malaria) in pregnancy was conducted. The risks of stillbirth (pregnancy loss at ≥ 28.0 weeks of gestation), moderate to late preterm birth (PTB, live birth between 32.0 and
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1741-7015
Relation: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-020-01592-z; https://doaj.org/toc/1741-7015
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-020-01592-z
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/f86bc733e45d4ba0bf3d67193f9a0d4c
Accession Number: edsdoj.f86bc733e45d4ba0bf3d67193f9a0d4c
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ISSN:17417015
DOI:10.1186/s12916-020-01592-z
Published in:BMC Medicine
Language:English