Stavudine induced acute necrotizing pancreatitis with tetany in a pediatric patient

A nine year old female patient presented with complaints of severe colicky abdominal pain, vomiting, and tingling with numbness for 3 days. Acute necrotizing pancreatitis associated with tetany due to anti-retroviral therapy was diagnosed. Stavudine was the probable causal agent. Unfortunately, the...

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Autores principales: Patel, Mahendra K., Barvaliya, Manish J., Patel, Tejas K., Tripathi, C. B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Drug Watch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23087520
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.99341
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description A nine year old female patient presented with complaints of severe colicky abdominal pain, vomiting, and tingling with numbness for 3 days. Acute necrotizing pancreatitis associated with tetany due to anti-retroviral therapy was diagnosed. Stavudine was the probable causal agent. Unfortunately, the patient died due to severity of the reaction. High index of suspicion and early withdrawal of the offending drug may prevent further harm in such cases.
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spelling pubmed-34699622012-10-19 Stavudine induced acute necrotizing pancreatitis with tetany in a pediatric patient Patel, Mahendra K. Barvaliya, Manish J. Patel, Tejas K. Tripathi, C. B. Indian J Pharmacol Drug Watch A nine year old female patient presented with complaints of severe colicky abdominal pain, vomiting, and tingling with numbness for 3 days. Acute necrotizing pancreatitis associated with tetany due to anti-retroviral therapy was diagnosed. Stavudine was the probable causal agent. Unfortunately, the patient died due to severity of the reaction. High index of suspicion and early withdrawal of the offending drug may prevent further harm in such cases. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3469962/ /pubmed/23087520 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.99341 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Pharmacology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Patel, Mahendra K.
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Stavudine induced acute necrotizing pancreatitis with tetany in a pediatric patient
title Stavudine induced acute necrotizing pancreatitis with tetany in a pediatric patient
title_full Stavudine induced acute necrotizing pancreatitis with tetany in a pediatric patient
title_fullStr Stavudine induced acute necrotizing pancreatitis with tetany in a pediatric patient
title_full_unstemmed Stavudine induced acute necrotizing pancreatitis with tetany in a pediatric patient
title_short Stavudine induced acute necrotizing pancreatitis with tetany in a pediatric patient
title_sort stavudine induced acute necrotizing pancreatitis with tetany in a pediatric patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469962/
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