Saturday, February 2, 2008

Enalaprilat Induced Acute Parotitis

A case of Enalaprilat induced acute parotitis has been published in the latest issue of the Journal of Association of Physicians of India.
A female patient developed acute bilateral parotitis within minutes of i.v. enalaprilat injection and recovered within 24 hours of stopping the drug and with symptomatic treatment.
This adverse reaction was tested on Naranjo’s algorithm and a score of 8 was obtained which puts this reaction as probable in the algorithm.

Reference: J Assoc Physc India 2008;56:128-129.

Source: http://www.japi.org/february2008/CR-128.htm

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