Acute Isolated Thrombocytopenia Secondary to Meloxicam Use: A Case Report

Meloxicam is a widely used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that is used to treat pain and some inflammatory disorders. One rare side effect is drug-induced thrombocytopenia (DITP), which can result in hemorrhage and death if not treated urgently. This diagnosis can be missed if mistaken...

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Autores principales: Abdelsayed, Nardine, Frost, Michael, Betz, William R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8841019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35174032
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21232
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description Meloxicam is a widely used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that is used to treat pain and some inflammatory disorders. One rare side effect is drug-induced thrombocytopenia (DITP), which can result in hemorrhage and death if not treated urgently. This diagnosis can be missed if mistaken for other conditions such as ITP, which is problematic since the mainstay of treatment is medication cessation. We present a case of a 42-year-old Hispanic female who was recently started on meloxicam and presented with petechiae, ecchymosis, and a platelet count of 2 (normal 150-350 K/mm3).
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spelling pubmed-88410192022-02-15 Acute Isolated Thrombocytopenia Secondary to Meloxicam Use: A Case Report Abdelsayed, Nardine Frost, Michael Betz, William R Cureus Internal Medicine Meloxicam is a widely used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that is used to treat pain and some inflammatory disorders. One rare side effect is drug-induced thrombocytopenia (DITP), which can result in hemorrhage and death if not treated urgently. This diagnosis can be missed if mistaken for other conditions such as ITP, which is problematic since the mainstay of treatment is medication cessation. We present a case of a 42-year-old Hispanic female who was recently started on meloxicam and presented with petechiae, ecchymosis, and a platelet count of 2 (normal 150-350 K/mm3). Cureus 2022-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8841019/ /pubmed/35174032 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21232 Text en Copyright © 2022, Abdelsayed 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.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Abdelsayed, Nardine
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Acute Isolated Thrombocytopenia Secondary to Meloxicam Use: A Case Report
title Acute Isolated Thrombocytopenia Secondary to Meloxicam Use: A Case Report
title_full Acute Isolated Thrombocytopenia Secondary to Meloxicam Use: A Case Report
title_fullStr Acute Isolated Thrombocytopenia Secondary to Meloxicam Use: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Acute Isolated Thrombocytopenia Secondary to Meloxicam Use: A Case Report
title_short Acute Isolated Thrombocytopenia Secondary to Meloxicam Use: A Case Report
title_sort acute isolated thrombocytopenia secondary to meloxicam use: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8841019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35174032
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21232
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