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Blue after splenectomy

INTRODUCTION: We present a 51 year old, African American, female who presented with persistent hypoxemia. She had been taking dapsone for many years for prophylaxis against Pneumocystic Jiroveci with no symptoms but eventually developed methemoglobinemia only after a splenectomy. From our literature...

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Autores principales: Ballachanda Subbaiah, Taaran Cariappa, Feldman, Jeremy P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5458056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28616377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2017.05.001