Thursday, September 6, 2007

Acute hepatitis attack after exposure to telithromycin

A case of 25 years old male patient having been prescribed 400 mg of Telithromycin for an upper respiratory tract infection and presenting with Jaundice, nausea and malaise has been published in Clinical Therapeutics.

Pathological Examination revealed 'drug induced toxic hepatitis' and the Naranjo adverse drug reaction probability scale had a score of 8 for this case.

Source: Clin Ther 2007;29:1725-1729.

http://www.clinicaltherapeutics.com/articles/1725_onu.pdf

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