Isoniazid-induced alopecia

Isoniazid is a safe and very effective antituberculosis drug. Antimitotic agents routinely cause alopecia. Drug-induced alopecia is usually reversible upon withdrawal of the drug. Isoniazid, thiacetazone and ethionamide are the antituberculosis drugs which have been associated with alopecia. Isoniaz...

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Autores principales: Gupta, K. B., Kumar, V., Vishvkarma, S., Shandily, R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21654989
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.76304
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author Gupta, K. B.
Kumar, V.
Vishvkarma, S.
Shandily, R.
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Kumar, V.
Vishvkarma, S.
Shandily, R.
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description Isoniazid is a safe and very effective antituberculosis drug. Antimitotic agents routinely cause alopecia. Drug-induced alopecia is usually reversible upon withdrawal of the drug. Isoniazid, thiacetazone and ethionamide are the antituberculosis drugs which have been associated with alopecia. Isoniazid-induced alopecia was observed in one case and confirmed by the finding that hair growth resumed when drug removed from the regimen.
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spelling pubmed-30995142011-06-08 Isoniazid-induced alopecia Gupta, K. B. Kumar, V. Vishvkarma, S. Shandily, R. Lung India Case Report Isoniazid is a safe and very effective antituberculosis drug. Antimitotic agents routinely cause alopecia. Drug-induced alopecia is usually reversible upon withdrawal of the drug. Isoniazid, thiacetazone and ethionamide are the antituberculosis drugs which have been associated with alopecia. Isoniazid-induced alopecia was observed in one case and confirmed by the finding that hair growth resumed when drug removed from the regimen. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3099514/ /pubmed/21654989 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.76304 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gupta, K. B.
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Shandily, R.
Isoniazid-induced alopecia
title Isoniazid-induced alopecia
title_full Isoniazid-induced alopecia
title_fullStr Isoniazid-induced alopecia
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title_short Isoniazid-induced alopecia
title_sort isoniazid-induced alopecia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21654989
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.76304
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