Lesson of the week: Fatal allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome after treatment of asymptomatic hyperuricaemia

British Medical Journal

Volumn 331, Issue 7517, 2005, Pages 623-624

  Gutiérrez Macías, Alfonso ^a   Lizarralde Palacios, Eva ^a   Martínez Odriozola, Pedro ^a   Miguel De La Villa, Felipe ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE BASURTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; PREDNISONE; ANTIGOUT AGENT;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; HYPERURICEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRANULOMA; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FATALITY; GOUT; SYNDROME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOPURINOL; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FATAL OUTCOME; GOUT; GOUT SUPPRESSANTS; HUMANS; HYPERURICEMIA; MALE; SYNDROME;

EID: 24944580007     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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