Serious pancytopenia from methotrexate treatment of psoriatic arthritis

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 392-394

  Chang, Yu Che ^a,b   Chen, Jen Dar ^c   Yen, David H T ^b,c   Wang, Lee Min ^c   Huang, Chun I ^c   Lee, Chen Hsen ^c  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMILORIDE PLUS HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METHOTREXATE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ASCITES; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DYSPHAGIA; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FECES ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; ILEUM RESECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; LEUKOPOIESIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS;

AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; HUMANS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; PANCYTOPENIA;

EID: 33646035256     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2005.11.022     Document Type: Letter

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