Mucormycosis in a patient with methimazole-induced agranulocytosis. A case report;Mucormicosis en un paciente con agranulocitosis secundaria a metimazol. Informe de un caso

Gaceta Medica de Mexico

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 235-238

  Ramírez, Claudia ^a,b   Hernández, Alex Francisco ^a   Méndez, Verna ^a   Trejo, Silvia ^a   Contreras, Roxana ^a   De Los Monteros, Ana Laura Espinosa ^a   Gómez, Luz María ^a   Mercado, Moisés ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE ESPECIALIDADES   (Mexico)

^b NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agranulocytosis; Methimazole; Mucormycosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; IODINE 131; LEVOTHYROXINE; PREDNISONE; PROPRANOLOL; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; THIAMAZOLE;

ADULT; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; MUCORMYCOSIS; THYROTOXICOSIS; TOXIC GOITER; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHIMAZOLE; MUCORMYCOSIS;

EID: 70349392921     PISSN: 00163813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Tajiri J, Noguchi S. Antithyroid drug-induced agranulocytosis: special reference to normal white blood cell count agranulocytosis. Thyroid 2004;14:459-462. (Pubitemid 38868766)
2. Young NS. Agranulocytosis. JAMA 1994;271:935-938.
3. Sheng WH, Hung CC, Chen YC, Fang CT, Hsie SM. Chang SC, et al. Antithyroid-drug-induced agranulocytosis complicated by life-threatening infections. Q J Med 1999;92:455-461.
4. Freifeld A, Iwen P. Zygomycosis. Sem Resp Crit Care Med 2004;25:221-231.
5. Cooper D. Antithyroid drugs. N Engl J Med 2005;352:905-917.
6. Andersohn F, Konzen C, Garbe E. Systematic review: agranulocytosis- induced by nonchemotherapy drugs. Ann Intern Med 2007;146:657. (Pubitemid 351650522)
7. Zambrana JT, Zambrana FF, Neto FR, Gonçalves AL, Zambrana FFT, Usibirobira J. Agranulocitose e tonsilite associadas ao uso de metimazol. Rev Bras Otorrinolaringol 2005;71:374-377.
8. Andrès E, Kurtz JE, Perrin AE, Dufour P, Schlienger JL, Malosiel F. Haematopoietic growth factor in antithyroid-drug-induced agranulocytosis. Q J Med 2001;94:423-428. (Pubitemid 32776284)
9. Andrès E, Zimmer J, Affenberger S, Federici L, Alt M, Malosiel F. Idiosyncratic drug-induced agranulocytosis: Update of an old disorder. Eur J Intern Med 2006;17:529-535. (Pubitemid 44827712)
10. Brown J. Zygomycosis: An emerging fungal infection. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2005;62:2593-2596.
11. Freifeld A, Iwen P. Zygomycosis. Seminar Respir Crit Care Med 2004;25:221-231.
12. Karanth M, Taniere P, Barraclough J, Murray JA. A rare presentation of zygomycosis (mucormycosis) and review of the literature. J Clin Pathol 2005;58:879-881. (Pubitemid 41113399)
13. Talmi YP, Goldschmied-Reouven A, Bakon M, Barschack I, Wolf M, Horowitz Z, et al. Rhino-orbital and rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2002;127:22-31.
14. Zaoutis T, Roilides E, Chiou C, Buchanan WL, Knudsen TA, Sarkisova TA, et al. Zygomycosis in children: a systematic review and analysis of reported cases. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2007;26:723-727. (Pubitemid 47424643)
15. Roden MM, Zaoutis TE, Buchanan WL, Knudsen TA, Sarkisova TA, Schaufele RL, et al. Epidemiology and outcome of zygomycosis: a review of 929 reported cases. Clin Infect Dis 2005;41:634-653.
16. Mercado A. M, Mendoza ZV, Bautista OR, Espinosa de los Monteros AL. Treatment of hyperthyroidism with a combination of methimazole and cholestyramine. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1996;81:3191-3193.