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Table 2 List of reported cases of severe malaria with PADH following oral arthemeter-lumefantrine therapy

From: Imported severe Plasmodium falciparum infection in the first trimester of pregnancy complicated by post-artemisinin delayed hemolysis and intrauterine fetal death, a case report

Author

Age/sex

Ethnicity

Malaria type

Infection site

Previous malaria

Regimen

Parasitemia (% or/μL)

Peak LDH (IU/L)

Parasitemia clearance

Hb nadir (g/dL)

Blood transfusion

Coombs (direct/indirect)

Corticosteroid use

Result

Recurrence of PADH

Corpolongo et al. (2012) [11]

34 M

Italian

Pf

Africa

No

IVQ + DOXY

 → AL

6

2071

Yes (72 h)

5.9 (day 17)

Yes

Neg/Neg

No

Recovery

No

De Nardo et al. (2013) [12]

55 M

ND

Pf

Africa

Yes (30yrs ago)

AL

6

1326

Yes (48 h)

6.9 (day 8,22)

Yes

Pos/Neg

Yes

Recovery

No

Raffray et al. (2014) [13]

17 F

Ivoirian

Pf

Africa

No

AL → IVAS

0.8

658

Yes (< 192 h)

4.6 (day 14)

No

Pos/ND

Yes

Recovery

No

Tsuchido et al. (2017) [14]

20 M

Japanese

Pf

Africa

No

AL

20.6 (865,000)

1855

Yes (96 h)

7.2 (day 16)

No

Neg/Neg

No

Recovery

No

 

27 F

Japanese

Pf

Africa

No

QH + DOXY → IVQG → AL

7.9

712

Yes (72 h)*

8.8 (day 11)

No

Neg/ND

No

Recovery

No

Lebrun et al. (2017) [15]

43 M

Caucasian

Pf

Africa

Yes (22yrs ago)

IVAS → AL

30

3035

Yes (72 h)

5.3 (day 18)

No

Pos/Neg

Yes

ND

No

Hasegawa et al. (2018) [16]

21 M

Japanese

Pf + Pv

India

No

AL → MQ → CQ + PQ

31.9 (920,000)

1400

Yes (48 h)

3.8 (day 9)

Yes

Neg/Neg

No

Recovery

No

Nakamura-Uchiyama et al. (2018) [17]

41 M

Nigerian

Pf

Africa

ND

AL

(672,000)

ND

Yes (48 h)

6.3 (day 19)

No

ND/ND

ND

ND

ND

 

39 M

Japanese

Pf

Africa

ND

AL

(549,000)

ND

Yes (192–336 h)

6.5 (day 18)

No

ND/ND

ND

ND

ND

Conlon et al. (2020) [18]

24 M

ND

Pf

Africa

No

IVQD + DOXY → AL

12

1759

Yes (> 96 h)*

 < 7

Yes

Pos/ND

No

Recovery

ND

Gustafsson et al. (2021) [19]

60 F

ND

Pf

Africa

No

AL

ND

925

ND

 < 4.3

No†

Pos/ND

Yes

Death

 − 

Kamegai et al. (2023)

30sF

Japanese

Pf

Africa

No

IVQG → AL

7.3

2394

Yes (96 h)

6.2 (day 17)

Yes

Neg/Neg

No

Recovery

No

  1. ND, not described; Pf, Plasmodium falciparum; Pv, Plasmodium vivax; AL, oral artemether-lumefantrine; IVAS, intravenous artesunate; IMA, intramuscular artemether; QH, oral quinidine hydrochloride; DOXY, doxycycline; IVQG, intravenous quinine gluconate; IVQ, intravenous quinine; IVQD, intravenous quinidine; MQ, mefloquine; CQ, chloroquine; PQ, primaquine; DHA-PPQ, dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine
  2. *Parasitemia was almost undetectable (< 0.1%); however, complete clearance has not been described
  3. The patient refused to receive a blood transfusion because of religious issues