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HEPATITIS AND NEUTROPENIA SECONDARY TO GOLD THIOMALATE THERAPY FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Author(s) -
SMITH M. D.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1986.tb01124.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gold sodium thiomalate , rheumatoid arthritis , neutropenia , hepatitis , gold salts , eosinophilia , immunology , gastroenterology , dermatology , chemotherapy
A 37 year old female with rheumatoid arthritis developed clinical and biochemical evidence of hepatitis after receiving 80 mg of sodium aurothiomalate. Inadvertent rechallenge with sodium aurothiomalate led to recurrence of the biochemical abnormalities and a profound neutropenia and eosinophilia.