Dapsone induced hemolysis in a patient with Hansen’s disease and G6PD deficiency: A preventable peril

Although under‐reported, hemolytic anemia is common with dapsone‐containing regimen in leprosy. It is prudent to screen for underlying G6PD deficiency in boys before administering dapsone to prevent potentially life‐threatening episode of intravascular hemolysis in children with leprosy.

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Autores principales: Ghorui, Arnab Kumar, Patra, Pratap Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9043721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35498357
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5700
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spelling pubmed-90437212022-04-28 Dapsone induced hemolysis in a patient with Hansen’s disease and G6PD deficiency: A preventable peril Ghorui, Arnab Kumar Patra, Pratap Kumar Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Although under‐reported, hemolytic anemia is common with dapsone‐containing regimen in leprosy. It is prudent to screen for underlying G6PD deficiency in boys before administering dapsone to prevent potentially life‐threatening episode of intravascular hemolysis in children with leprosy. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9043721/ /pubmed/35498357 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5700 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Dapsone induced hemolysis in a patient with Hansen’s disease and G6PD deficiency: A preventable peril
title_full Dapsone induced hemolysis in a patient with Hansen’s disease and G6PD deficiency: A preventable peril
title_fullStr Dapsone induced hemolysis in a patient with Hansen’s disease and G6PD deficiency: A preventable peril
title_full_unstemmed Dapsone induced hemolysis in a patient with Hansen’s disease and G6PD deficiency: A preventable peril
title_short Dapsone induced hemolysis in a patient with Hansen’s disease and G6PD deficiency: A preventable peril
title_sort dapsone induced hemolysis in a patient with hansen’s disease and g6pd deficiency: a preventable peril
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9043721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35498357
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5700
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