Injectable Gold-Induced Hepatitis and Neutropenia in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Gold salts have been used for many years in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The common side effects are mucocutaneous reactions, but hepatotoxic reaction and isolated neutropenia are rare complications. We report a 62-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis who had developed hepatitis and ne...

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Autores principales: Uhm, Wan-Sik, Yoo, Dae-Hyun, Lee, Ji-Hyun, Kim, Tae-Hwan, Jun, Jae-Bum, Lee, In-Hong, Bae, Sang-Cheol, Kim, Seong Yoon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2000
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4531758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10992732
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2000.15.2.156
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author Uhm, Wan-Sik
Yoo, Dae-Hyun
Lee, Ji-Hyun
Kim, Tae-Hwan
Jun, Jae-Bum
Lee, In-Hong
Bae, Sang-Cheol
Kim, Seong Yoon
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Kim, Tae-Hwan
Jun, Jae-Bum
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description Gold salts have been used for many years in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The common side effects are mucocutaneous reactions, but hepatotoxic reaction and isolated neutropenia are rare complications. We report a 62-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis who had developed hepatitis and neutropenia simultaneously after receiving 137.5 mg of sodium aurothiomalate.
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spelling pubmed-45317582015-10-02 Injectable Gold-Induced Hepatitis and Neutropenia in Rheumatoid Arthritis Uhm, Wan-Sik Yoo, Dae-Hyun Lee, Ji-Hyun Kim, Tae-Hwan Jun, Jae-Bum Lee, In-Hong Bae, Sang-Cheol Kim, Seong Yoon Korean J Intern Med Case Report Gold salts have been used for many years in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The common side effects are mucocutaneous reactions, but hepatotoxic reaction and isolated neutropenia are rare complications. We report a 62-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis who had developed hepatitis and neutropenia simultaneously after receiving 137.5 mg of sodium aurothiomalate. Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2000-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4531758/ /pubmed/10992732 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2000.15.2.156 Text en Copyright © 2000 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Uhm, Wan-Sik
Yoo, Dae-Hyun
Lee, Ji-Hyun
Kim, Tae-Hwan
Jun, Jae-Bum
Lee, In-Hong
Bae, Sang-Cheol
Kim, Seong Yoon
Injectable Gold-Induced Hepatitis and Neutropenia in Rheumatoid Arthritis
title Injectable Gold-Induced Hepatitis and Neutropenia in Rheumatoid Arthritis
title_full Injectable Gold-Induced Hepatitis and Neutropenia in Rheumatoid Arthritis
title_fullStr Injectable Gold-Induced Hepatitis and Neutropenia in Rheumatoid Arthritis
title_full_unstemmed Injectable Gold-Induced Hepatitis and Neutropenia in Rheumatoid Arthritis
title_short Injectable Gold-Induced Hepatitis and Neutropenia in Rheumatoid Arthritis
title_sort injectable gold-induced hepatitis and neutropenia in rheumatoid arthritis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4531758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10992732
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2000.15.2.156
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