Agranulocytosis with Recovery During Promazine Therapy

Agranulocytosis during Clozapine Therapy

Sir, This is in response to the article' Do Indian researchers read Indian research? a reappraisal, four years later', published in April 2000 (No.2, f Vol.42) issue of your journal. The authors of this article have documented their observations on my article 'Transsexualism in Schizophrenia : a case report' (April, 1998, Vol.40, No.2) that I did not refer to their article, 'Behaviour Therapy f...

Agranulocytosis associated with nitrofurantoin therapy.

Agranulocytosis associated with sulphasalazine therapy.

A case report of a patient with agranulocytosis associated with sulphasalazine therapy is described. Recovery followed supportive therapy and withdrawal of the drug. Investigations including tests for leucocyte antibodies, the presence of which might have suggested an immunological cause for the drug reaction, were negative; an acetylation study, however, characterized the patient as a 'slow' a...

Agranulocytosis during treatment with pacatal.

ansemia, was caused by the barbiturates she was taking. Both amylobarbitone sodium and quinalbarbitone sodium, the constituents of tuinal, are closely related chemically to primidone, sodium phenytoin, and phenobarbitone, but a megaloblastic anaemia has not previously been described in association --ith their use. The doses that this patient was taking (gr. 18-20 for 6-8 months) were, however, ...

[Agranulocytosis with tonsillitis associated with methimazole therapy].

The treatment of hyperthyroidism with antithyroid drugs can cause a significant side effect in 0.2 to 0.3% of the cases: agranulocytosis. Infectious complications caused by this condition affect mainly the throat, and tonsillitis is one of its manifestations. The present study reported the case of a female patient, 33 years old, manifesting odynophagia and fever resistant to many antibiotics. T...