Pyrazinamide induced thrombocytopenia

Thrombocytopenia is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening complication of certain antitubercular drugs and is characterized by rapid destruction of platelets whenever offending drug is taken by a susceptible person. We report a case of pyrazinamide-induced thrombocytopenia in a patient receiv...

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Autores principales: Kant, Surya, Verma, Sanjay Kumar, Gupta, Vaibhav, Anand, Sunish C., Prasad, Rajendra
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2907007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20711377
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.64495
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Sumario:Thrombocytopenia is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening complication of certain antitubercular drugs and is characterized by rapid destruction of platelets whenever offending drug is taken by a susceptible person. We report a case of pyrazinamide-induced thrombocytopenia in a patient receiving anti tubercular drugs.

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