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. 2004 Oct 18;2004(4):CD004391. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004391.pub2

Moyou 2001.

Methods Trial design: randomized controlled trial
Generation of allocation sequence: computer‐generated randomization
Allocation concealment: sealed, coded envelopes (information provided by author)
Blinding: none as different routes of drug administration used
Loss to follow up: 2 lost to follow up at day 28 in arteether group
Participants 102 male and female children aged 0 to 10 years with cerebral malaria: 4/106 (4%) excluded; 102 evaluated (arteether (51), quinine (51))
Inclusion criteria: asexual falciparum parasitaemia; Blantyre coma score of 2 or less
Exclusion criteria: children presenting with chronic illness, eg renal or liver diseases, frank acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), epilepsy, and cardiovascular accident/stroke; children taking cardioactive drugs; history of blackwater fever; positive blood culture for a pathogen or positive cerebrospinal fluid test result
Interventions 1. Arteether for 5 days (3.2 mg/kg first day, then 1.6 mg/kg next 4 days)
 2. Quinine for 7 days (20 mg/kg loading dose then 10 mg/kg every 8 h thereafter)
Outcomes 1. Mortality
 2. Coma resolution time
 3. Fever clearance time
 4. Parasite clearance time
 5. Serious adverse events
Notes Location: Cameroon