Disseminated intravascular coagulation and vasculitis during propylthiouracil therapy

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 893, 2000, Pages 185-186

  Khurshid, Imtiaz ^a   Sher, Jay ^a  

^a JERSEY SHORE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse drug reaction; Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Propylthiouracil; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; ANTITHYROID AGENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; D DIMER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HISTONE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; PROTHROMBIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; STEROID; THIAMAZOLE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0034055450     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.76.893.185     Document Type: Article

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