A Case of Levamisole-Induced Agranulocytosis

A sixty-eight-year-old male with a past medical history of recurrent cocaine use presented to the emergency department with recurrent diarrhea and was found to have a white blood cell (WBC) count of 1.9 × 10(9)/L with agranulocytosis (absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of 95 cell/mm(3)). At admission,...

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Autores principales: Kassim, Thamer, Chintalacheruvu, Lakshmi, Bhatty, Osman, Selim, Mohammad, Diab, Osama, Nayfeh, Ali, Manikkam Umakanthan, Jayadev, Gbadamosi-Akindele, Maryam
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Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5828115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29607229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7341835
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author Kassim, Thamer
Chintalacheruvu, Lakshmi
Bhatty, Osman
Selim, Mohammad
Diab, Osama
Nayfeh, Ali
Manikkam Umakanthan, Jayadev
Gbadamosi-Akindele, Maryam
author_facet Kassim, Thamer
Chintalacheruvu, Lakshmi
Bhatty, Osman
Selim, Mohammad
Diab, Osama
Nayfeh, Ali
Manikkam Umakanthan, Jayadev
Gbadamosi-Akindele, Maryam
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description A sixty-eight-year-old male with a past medical history of recurrent cocaine use presented to the emergency department with recurrent diarrhea and was found to have a white blood cell (WBC) count of 1.9 × 10(9)/L with agranulocytosis (absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of 95 cell/mm(3)). At admission, the patient disclosed that he used cocaine earlier during the day, and a urine drug screen tested positive for this. On hospital day one, the patient was found to have a fever with a maximum temperature of 313.6 K. After ruling out other causes and noting the quick turnaround of his neutropenia after four days of cocaine abstinence, the patient's neutropenia was attributed to levamisole-adulterated cocaine.
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spelling pubmed-58281152018-04-01 A Case of Levamisole-Induced Agranulocytosis Kassim, Thamer Chintalacheruvu, Lakshmi Bhatty, Osman Selim, Mohammad Diab, Osama Nayfeh, Ali Manikkam Umakanthan, Jayadev Gbadamosi-Akindele, Maryam Case Rep Hematol Case Report A sixty-eight-year-old male with a past medical history of recurrent cocaine use presented to the emergency department with recurrent diarrhea and was found to have a white blood cell (WBC) count of 1.9 × 10(9)/L with agranulocytosis (absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of 95 cell/mm(3)). At admission, the patient disclosed that he used cocaine earlier during the day, and a urine drug screen tested positive for this. On hospital day one, the patient was found to have a fever with a maximum temperature of 313.6 K. After ruling out other causes and noting the quick turnaround of his neutropenia after four days of cocaine abstinence, the patient's neutropenia was attributed to levamisole-adulterated cocaine. Hindawi 2018-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5828115/ /pubmed/29607229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7341835 Text en Copyright © 2018 Thamer Kassim et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chintalacheruvu, Lakshmi
Bhatty, Osman
Selim, Mohammad
Diab, Osama
Nayfeh, Ali
Manikkam Umakanthan, Jayadev
Gbadamosi-Akindele, Maryam
A Case of Levamisole-Induced Agranulocytosis
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7341835
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