Cholestatic jaundice: an immune response to prajmalium bitartrate.
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Cholestatic jaundice: an immune response to prajmalium bitartrate.
Cholestatic jaundice associated with chills, pruritus and blood eosinophilia developed in a patient who received prajmalium bitartrate therapy for ventricular arrhythmia following acute myocardial infarction. Discontinuation of the drug resulted in a spontaneous improvement in the clinical and biochemical findings. Challenge by prajmalium bitartrate caused rapid reappearance of the clinical and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.56.660.738