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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)[S] A 77-year-old Japanese woman developed Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) following treatment with montelukast for bronchial asthma. Fifteen months after starting oral montelukast 10mg daily, the patient presented...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)A 45-year-old woman developed generalised urticaria due to drug hypersensitivity after receiving hydrocortisone sodium succinate [Flebocortid]. The woman, who had a history of empty sella syndrome, had received...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)[S] A 40-year-old man with a 20-year history of ankylosing spondylitis developed tuberculous meningoencephalitis during treatment with infliximab. When screened for latent tuberculosis, the man had reactive...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)[S] A 66-year-old man developed scleroderma-like skin sclerosis while receiving chemotherapy with docetaxel for hormone-refractory prostate cancer. The man, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in December 2002,...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)[*] [S] A 59-year-old woman with mantel cell lymphoma developed pneumothorax after high-dose chemotherapy, and died. The woman was hospitalised for chemotherapy and autologous peripheral stem cell transplantation....
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)Novartis have issued a 'Dear Healthcare Professional' letter announcing the association of daptomycin [Cubicin] with pulmonary eosinophilia. They say that there have been "rare but potentially serious reports" of the...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)A 20-year-old woman developed tinea incognito during treatment with a corticosteroid and clobetasol [dosages and times to reaction onset not stated; indications not clearly stated]. The woman presented with itching...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)[*] [S] A 73-year-old woman developed the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) with severe hyponatraemia while receiving pioglitazone. The woman had an 11-year history of type 2...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)[S] A 5-year-old Chinese girl developed subacute neurotoxicity following treatment with methotrexate for B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). The patient responded rapidly to induction chemotherapy,...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)[S] A 47-year-old man with Crohn's disease developed leukocytoclastic vasculitis and exanthema following treatment with infliximab. The man, who had Crohn's disease since 1995, was hospitalised in 2006 for a...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)Safety concerns related to thromboembolism have halted enrolment in a trial of necitumumab for lung cancer. An independent data monitoring committee recommended that no new or recently enrolled patients continue...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)A 60-year-old man presented with nail and skin changes associated with docetaxel therapy [dosage and route not stated] for adenocarcinoma of the prostate. After previous cycles of treatment with docetaxel he had...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)[S] A 46-year-old woman developed pulmonary oedema and shock following treatment with hydrochlorothiazide for hypertension. The woman presented with vomiting, lightheadedness and shortness of breath which...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)A 24-year-old woman received multiple IM injections of aqueous phytomenadione [vitamin K1] 10 mg/L for hypoprothrombinaemia 4 days before delivering a healthy infant at 38 weeks' gestation. Following the injections, her...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)[S] A 26-year-old woman developed bilateral breast cancer following chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). The woman was diagnosed with B-cell ALL in 1993, and started receiving chemotherapy with...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)A 55-year-old woman noticed a skin lesion on her left arm 22 days after receiving the influenza A virus vaccineH1N1 [Pandemrix; dosage not stated], which contained thiomersal as an excipient. The lesion, which occurred...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)[S] A 43-year-old man developed acute myocarditis while receiving clozapine for schizophrenia. The man had developed resistance to non-clozapine antipsychotics over the past 20 years. He started clozapine in 2008...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)[S] A 27-year-old woman developed agranulocytosis during treatment with mycophenolate mofetil following a kidney transplant. The woman underwent kidney transplantation in January 2009. She subsequently received...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)In September 2009, China began their pandemic influenza A virus H1N1 vaccine campaign, administering vaccines from 10 different manufacturers to nearly 90 million people in at-risk populations. A passive surveillance...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1338)[S] An elderly woman with a history which included hypertension, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, diabetes mellitus and known advanced tumour disease developed renal failure while receiving enalapril and...