Respiratory arrest due to nitrofurantoin treatment in the absence of pulmonary pathology

In the case we present, an elderly female patient developed respiratory arrest in the absence of pulmonary pathology after using nitrofurantoin (NF). To our current knowledge, this case is the first in the literature. The patient was monitored on mechanical ventilation, and her condition improved on...

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Autor principal: Çoban, Hikmet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4660482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26692737
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-0105.168050
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spelling pubmed-46604822015-12-11 Respiratory arrest due to nitrofurantoin treatment in the absence of pulmonary pathology Çoban, Hikmet J Basic Clin Pharm Case Report In the case we present, an elderly female patient developed respiratory arrest in the absence of pulmonary pathology after using nitrofurantoin (NF). To our current knowledge, this case is the first in the literature. The patient was monitored on mechanical ventilation, and her condition improved only after discontinuing NF treatment. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4660482/ /pubmed/26692737 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-0105.168050 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Basic and Clinical Pharmacy 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4660482/
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