Accidental ten times overdose administration of recombinant human erythropoietin (rh-EPO) up to 318,000 units a day in acute myocardial infarction: Report of two cases

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 222-224

  Shin, Dae Hee ^a   Kwon, Young Il ^a   Choi, Sung Il ^a   Park, Ui Soon ^a   Lee, Je ^a   Shin, Jin Ho ^a   Lee, Jae Ung ^a   Kim, Soon Gil ^a   Kim, Jeong Hyun ^a   Lim, Heon Kil ^a   Lee, Bang Hun ^a   Kim, Kyung Soo ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; POTASSIUM; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; URIC ACID;

ABNORMALLY HIGH SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; ACCIDENT; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EDEMA; EOSINOPHILIA; EPISTAXIS; FEVER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MYALGIA; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SEIZURE; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOSIS; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OVERDOSE;

EID: 33645064556     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2006.pto_306.x     Document Type: Article

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