Case report: combination artemether-lumefantrine and haemolytic anaemia following a malarial attack.

Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg

Department of Anaesthesiology, HIA du Valde Grâce, 74 Bd Port Royal, 75005 Paris, France.

Published: October 2004

A case of a patient who was admitted to hospital in Paris, France, in February 2001 with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, probably due to artemether-lumefantrine therapy, is presented. Such a complication has previously been observed in patients receiving drugs containing aryl-amino-alcohols but never before in a patient receiving lumefantrine and may be associated with the increase in episodes of blackwater fever seen in recent years.

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