Rifampicin-associated acute renal failure and hemolysis: A rather uncommon but severe complication

Renal Failure

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1179-1181

  Manika, Katerina ^a   Tasiopoulou, Karmen ^b   Vlogiaris, Leuteris ^a   Lada, Martha ^a   Papaemmanouil, Styliani ^c   Zarogoulidis, Konstaninos ^a   Kioumis, Ioannis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Papanikolaou Hospital   (Greece)

^c Department of Pathology G Papanikolaou Hospital ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis; Drug nephrotoxicity; Rifampicin; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; FUROSEMIDE; ISONIAZID; MOXIFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COOMBS TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GRANULOMA; HEMOLYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALAISE; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIFAMPIN; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84881567009     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0886022X.2013.815567     Document Type: Article

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