Atorvastatin-Induced Refractory Thrombocytopenia

Drug-induced thrombocytopenia is rarely associated with statin medications. We describe the case of a 69-year-old woman who developed refractory thrombocytopenia following atorvastatin use. To our knowledge, this is the fourth reported case of atorvastatin-induced thrombocytopenia and the first repo...

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Autores principales: Ghuman, Jasmine, Manasewitsch, Nicholas T, Ghuman, Joban, Antwi-Amoabeng, Daniel, Chahal, Gurpreet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7861060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33564510
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12502
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author Ghuman, Jasmine
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Ghuman, Joban
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description Drug-induced thrombocytopenia is rarely associated with statin medications. We describe the case of a 69-year-old woman who developed refractory thrombocytopenia following atorvastatin use. To our knowledge, this is the fourth reported case of atorvastatin-induced thrombocytopenia and the first reported case of atorvastatin-induced refractory thrombocytopenia. Additionally, we summarize the cases of statin-induced thrombocytopenia reported in the medical literature.
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spelling pubmed-78610602021-02-08 Atorvastatin-Induced Refractory Thrombocytopenia Ghuman, Jasmine Manasewitsch, Nicholas T Ghuman, Joban Antwi-Amoabeng, Daniel Chahal, Gurpreet Cureus Internal Medicine Drug-induced thrombocytopenia is rarely associated with statin medications. We describe the case of a 69-year-old woman who developed refractory thrombocytopenia following atorvastatin use. To our knowledge, this is the fourth reported case of atorvastatin-induced thrombocytopenia and the first reported case of atorvastatin-induced refractory thrombocytopenia. Additionally, we summarize the cases of statin-induced thrombocytopenia reported in the medical literature. Cureus 2021-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7861060/ /pubmed/33564510 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12502 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ghuman 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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Ghuman, Jasmine
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Antwi-Amoabeng, Daniel
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title_short Atorvastatin-Induced Refractory Thrombocytopenia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7861060/
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