[Panzytopenia from Combination Therapy with Azathioprin and Allopurinol]

Overview

Journal Z Rheumatol

Publisher Springer

Specialty Rheumatology

Date 2004 Nov 2

PMID 15517303

Authors

W Seidel

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Abstract

Azathioprine has been used in rheumatology for more than twenty years. Indications are collagen diseases with multiorgan involvement, where co-medications are frequently necessary. We describe a patient suffering from pancytopenia following a combination therapy of azathioprine and allopurinol because of lupus erythematodes and diabetic nephropathy with hyperuricemia.

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