A Rare Case of Hydrochlorothiazide-Induced Hemolytic Anemia

Drug-induced immune hemolytic anemia is an exceedingly rare adverse drug event. Thiazide diuretics, commonly used in the treatment of primary hypertension, have been associated with this complication. In this case report, we present a 77-year-old male who developed acute hemolytic anemia two days af...

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Autores principales: Stevens-Cohen, Pilar, Zaghi, Fardad, Zhu, Lawrence
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8464019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34589357
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17453
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description Drug-induced immune hemolytic anemia is an exceedingly rare adverse drug event. Thiazide diuretics, commonly used in the treatment of primary hypertension, have been associated with this complication. In this case report, we present a 77-year-old male who developed acute hemolytic anemia two days after starting hydrochlorothiazide in the treatment of high blood pressure.
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spelling pubmed-84640192021-09-28 A Rare Case of Hydrochlorothiazide-Induced Hemolytic Anemia Stevens-Cohen, Pilar Zaghi, Fardad Zhu, Lawrence Cureus Cardiology Drug-induced immune hemolytic anemia is an exceedingly rare adverse drug event. Thiazide diuretics, commonly used in the treatment of primary hypertension, have been associated with this complication. In this case report, we present a 77-year-old male who developed acute hemolytic anemia two days after starting hydrochlorothiazide in the treatment of high blood pressure. Cureus 2021-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8464019/ /pubmed/34589357 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17453 Text en Copyright © 2021, Stevens-Cohen et al. https://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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title_short A Rare Case of Hydrochlorothiazide-Induced Hemolytic Anemia
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