Myositis complicating benzathine penicillin-G injection in a case of rheumatic heart disease

A 7-year old boy developed myositis secondary to intramuscular injection of benzathine penicillin-G in the context of secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic heart disease. Side effects of intramuscular delivery of benzathine penicillin-G are well described and include injection site pain and inflammati...

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Autores principales: Francis, Joshua R., Wyber, Rosemary, Remenyi, Bo, Croser, David, Carapetis, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Illustrated
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27051573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.02.001
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author Francis, Joshua R.
Wyber, Rosemary
Remenyi, Bo
Croser, David
Carapetis, Jonathan
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description A 7-year old boy developed myositis secondary to intramuscular injection of benzathine penicillin-G in the context of secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic heart disease. Side effects of intramuscular delivery of benzathine penicillin-G are well described and include injection site pain and inflammation, but myositis, as depicted on magnetic resonance imaging in this case, has not previously been described.
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spelling pubmed-48026782016-04-05 Myositis complicating benzathine penicillin-G injection in a case of rheumatic heart disease Francis, Joshua R. Wyber, Rosemary Remenyi, Bo Croser, David Carapetis, Jonathan IDCases Case Illustrated A 7-year old boy developed myositis secondary to intramuscular injection of benzathine penicillin-G in the context of secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic heart disease. Side effects of intramuscular delivery of benzathine penicillin-G are well described and include injection site pain and inflammation, but myositis, as depicted on magnetic resonance imaging in this case, has not previously been described. Elsevier 2016-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4802678/ /pubmed/27051573 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.02.001 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Wyber, Rosemary
Remenyi, Bo
Croser, David
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Myositis complicating benzathine penicillin-G injection in a case of rheumatic heart disease
title Myositis complicating benzathine penicillin-G injection in a case of rheumatic heart disease
title_full Myositis complicating benzathine penicillin-G injection in a case of rheumatic heart disease
title_fullStr Myositis complicating benzathine penicillin-G injection in a case of rheumatic heart disease
title_full_unstemmed Myositis complicating benzathine penicillin-G injection in a case of rheumatic heart disease
title_short Myositis complicating benzathine penicillin-G injection in a case of rheumatic heart disease
title_sort myositis complicating benzathine penicillin-g injection in a case of rheumatic heart disease
topic Case Illustrated
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27051573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.02.001
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