Probable Vancomycin Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report

Vancomycin has been used for a long time to manage resistant gram-positive bacterial infections. Neutropenia is an uncommon and potentially serious adverse effect associated with vancomycin use. Herein we present a case of probable vancomycin induced neutropenia which resolved with discontinuation o...

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Autores principales: Kaur, Anahat, Khan, Ghazal, Grover, Punita, Moormeier, Jill
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31565605
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5199
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description Vancomycin has been used for a long time to manage resistant gram-positive bacterial infections. Neutropenia is an uncommon and potentially serious adverse effect associated with vancomycin use. Herein we present a case of probable vancomycin induced neutropenia which resolved with discontinuation of the antibiotic. Since blood counts are monitored routinely these days in both outpatient and inpatient setting, due consideration needs to be given to vancomycin induced neutropenia in patients who are on long term antimicrobial therapy.
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spelling pubmed-67589892019-09-28 Probable Vancomycin Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report Kaur, Anahat Khan, Ghazal Grover, Punita Moormeier, Jill Cureus Internal Medicine Vancomycin has been used for a long time to manage resistant gram-positive bacterial infections. Neutropenia is an uncommon and potentially serious adverse effect associated with vancomycin use. Herein we present a case of probable vancomycin induced neutropenia which resolved with discontinuation of the antibiotic. Since blood counts are monitored routinely these days in both outpatient and inpatient setting, due consideration needs to be given to vancomycin induced neutropenia in patients who are on long term antimicrobial therapy. Cureus 2019-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6758989/ /pubmed/31565605 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5199 Text en Copyright © 2019, Kaur et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kaur, Anahat
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Probable Vancomycin Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report
title Probable Vancomycin Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report
title_full Probable Vancomycin Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report
title_fullStr Probable Vancomycin Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Probable Vancomycin Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report
title_short Probable Vancomycin Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report
title_sort probable vancomycin induced neutropenia: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31565605
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5199
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