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- Title
Propensity Score Analysis of Artesunate Versus Quinine for Severe Imported Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in France.
- Authors
Ket, Nermine El; Kendjo, Eric; Thellier, Marc; Assoumou, Lambert; Potard, Valérie; Taieb, Aida; Tantaoui, Ilhame; Caumes, Eric; Piarroux, Renaud; Roussel, Camille; Buffet, Pierre; Costagliola, Dominique; Jauréguiberry, Stéphane
- Abstract
Background Little is known on the use of artesunate compared with quinine for the treatment of imported malaria cases in nonendemic countries with a high level of care. Therefore, we compared the 2 treatments in terms of mortality and hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) discharge rates. Methods We analyzed the cohort of all severe imported malaria patients reported to the French National Reference Center from 2011 to 2017. After controlling for differences between quinine- and artesunate-treated individuals using the inverse probability of treatment weighting method, 28-day mortality rate was compared between the groups as well as hospital and ICU discharge rates using Kaplan–Meier estimation and weighted Cox proportional hazard models. Results Overall, 1544 patients were enrolled. Fifty patients died, 18 in the quinine group (n = 460) and 32 in the artesunate group (n = 1084), corresponding to death rates of 3.9% and 2.9%, respectively. No difference was evident between quinine and artesunate either in mortality or in hospital discharge rate, with hazard ratios (HRs) of 1.03 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.47–2.25) and 1.12 (95% CI, 0.94–1.34), respectively. Artesunate was associated with a faster ICU discharge rate (HR, 1.18. 95% CI, 1.02–1.36). Conclusions In a country with a high level of care, artesunate was associated with a shorter length of stay in the ICU, which supports the actual therapeutic transition; however, no difference was found in terms of mortality or in hospital discharge rates between artesunate- and quinine-treated patients.
- Subjects
FRANCE; DRUG therapy for malaria; COMPARATIVE studies; CONFIDENCE intervals; LENGTH of stay in hospitals; HOSPITALS; INTENSIVE care units; LONGITUDINAL method; MALARIA; PROBABILITY theory; QUININE; DISCHARGE planning; PROPORTIONAL hazards models; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; KAPLAN-Meier estimator
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020, Vol 70, Issue 2, p280
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cid/ciz206