Correct Diagnosis, Wrong Medication, Unusual Adverse Event
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Correct Diagnosis, Wrong Medication, Unusual Adverse Event
A 37 year old white woman with a well-known history of migraine headaches presented to an urgent care center with a chief complaint of severe headache with associated nausea that was unrelieved by medication that she had at home. She had taken Axert® (almotriptan) at home and repeated it once, without any improvement in her symptoms; she typically had good results with this medication. Upon pre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pharmacy & Pharmacology International Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2379-6367
DOI: 10.15406/ppij.2015.02.00026