Pancytopenia, including macrocytic anemia, associated with leflunomide in a rheumatoid arthritis patient

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 436-440

  Toyokawa, Yasuhiko ^a,b   Kingetsu, Isamu ^a   Yasuda, Chiho ^a   Yasuda, Jun ^a   Yoshida, Ken ^a   Kurosaka, Daitaro ^a   Yamada, Akio ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Toyokawa Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drug induced megaloblastic anemia; Leflunomide; Macrocytic anemia; Pancytopenia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLESTYRAMINE; HAPTOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NONHUMAN; OCCULT BLOOD; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGED; ANEMIA, MACROCYTIC; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOXAZOLES; PANCYTOPENIA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35348827253     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-007-0613-8     Document Type: Article

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