Minocycline induced lupus with yellow colored chylous exudative pleural effusion

Ninety years old male was admitted to hospital due to breathlessness. The prominent findings were extensive blue-grey skin pigmentation and large left chylothorax. Drug induced lupus was diagnosed due to either minocycline chronic treatment or no alternative illness to explain his sub-acute disease....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Starobin, Daniel, Guller, Vladimir, Gurevich, Alexander, Tal, Sari
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28761807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2017.07.005
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Sumario:Ninety years old male was admitted to hospital due to breathlessness. The prominent findings were extensive blue-grey skin pigmentation and large left chylothorax. Drug induced lupus was diagnosed due to either minocycline chronic treatment or no alternative illness to explain his sub-acute disease. Minocycline therapy was stopped with gradual improvement of pleural effusion and skin discoloration. This case is the first presentation of minocycline induced lupus with chylothorax.

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