A fatal case of propylthiouracil-induced ANCA-positive vasculitis

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Batchelor, Nick ^a   Holley, Aaron ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FUROSEMIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; STEROID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ANTIBODY TITER; ARMY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECCHYMOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATALITY; GERMANY; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INFILTRATE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PENSIONER; PLASMAPHERESIS; PNEUMONIA; SPLENOMEGALY; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; URINARY CAST; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULITIS;

ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; VASCULITIS;

EID: 33750275771     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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