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(Continued)<br />

Ashley 2003b THA<br />

(356 participants)<br />

Ashley 2004 THA<br />

(499 participants)<br />

Grande 2005 PER<br />

(522 participants)<br />

Janssens 2003 KHM<br />

(464 participants)<br />

Mayxay 2004 LAO<br />

(220 participants)<br />

Daily review until parasites<br />

cleared then weekly until day 63<br />

A subset of patients in the<br />

DHA-P group had FBC, U&E<br />

and LFT on days 0 and 7 and<br />

ECG monitoring be<strong>for</strong>e and after<br />

treatment<br />

Clinical examination, symptom<br />

enquiry, and haematocrit<br />

daily until parasites cleared then<br />

weekly until day 63<br />

Clinical assessment daily until<br />

day 3 then weekly until day 63<br />

FBC, U&E, LFT, and PCV<br />

days 0 and 7, PCV days 14 and<br />

63<br />

Clinical examination and<br />

symptom questionnaire days 0,<br />

1, 2, 3. Only adverse events occurring<br />

in these 3 days are reported.<br />

Daily review until parasites<br />

cleared then weekly until day 42<br />

<strong>Artemisinin</strong>-<strong>based</strong> <strong>combination</strong> <strong>therapy</strong> <strong>for</strong> treating uncomplicated malaria (Review)<br />

Copyright © 2009 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Cochrane</strong> Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<br />

Open label SAE: No serious adverse events observed<br />

GI: More abdominal pain reported with DHA-P<br />

(P = 0.025) Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea not<br />

significantly different<br />

CNS: More sleep disturbance with AS+MQ (P =<br />

0.008) Dizziness not significantly different<br />

Biochemical: Some minor fluctuations in LFTs<br />

CVS: No comment<br />

Open label SAE: 4 serious events with AS+MQ (death, severe<br />

anaemia, febrile convulsion, coagulopathy) and 11<br />

with DHA-P (2 deaths, bacterial sepsis, febrile convulsion,<br />

leptospirosis, haematemesis, nephritic syndrome,<br />

severe anaemia, respiratory infection, epigastric<br />

pain and vomiting). All except the one case<br />

of severe vomiting were judged to be unrelated or<br />

unlikely to be due to the study treatment<br />

GI: More diarrhoea with DHA-P (P = 0.026); nausea,<br />

vomiting, and abdominal pain not significantly<br />

different<br />

CNS: No significant difference in dizziness or sleep<br />

disturbance<br />

Other: Urticaria occurred in 1 patient with DHA-<br />

P but none with AS+MQ<br />

Open label SAE: 3 serious drug related events with AS+MQ requiring<br />

stopping treatment (encephalopathy, anxiety<br />

and arrhythmia, palpitations, and chest pain)<br />

GI: More nausea and vomiting with AS+MQ in<br />

adults (P = 0.02) but not significantly different in<br />

children. Abdominal pain and anorexia not significantly<br />

different<br />

CNS: More insomnia, dizziness and anxiety with<br />

ASMQ in adults (P = < 0.001) and more insomnia<br />

and anxiety with AS+MQ in children (P = < 0.001,<br />

0.02). More somnolence with DHA-P (P = 0.02)<br />

Biochemical: No clinically significant abnormal renal<br />

or liver test results<br />

Open label SAE: No serious adverse events observed<br />

GI: More nausea, vomiting, and anorexia with<br />

AS+MQ, only vomiting was significant (P = 0.03)<br />

CNS: More dizziness and sleep disturbance with<br />

AS+MQ (P = 0.002, 0.03)<br />

CVS: More palpitations with AS+MQ (P = 0.04)<br />

Open label SAE: One neuropsychiatric reaction in AS+MQ<br />

group<br />

GI: More nausea and vomiting with AS+MQ (P =<br />

220

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