TY - JOUR
KW - Acute Kidney Injury
KW - Adult
KW - Dapsone
KW - Drug Hypersensitivity
KW - Drug Therapy, Combination
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Nephritis, Interstitial
KW - Rifampin
AU - Dedhia N M
AU - Almeida A F
AU - Khanna U B
AU - Mittal B V
AU - Acharya V M
AB - <p>A leprosy patient who developed acute renal failure on multidrug therapy is reported. The patient had initially received a once-weekly dose of rifampin and after he had stopped taking the drug for a time, was given rifampin on a once-monthly dose schedule. He recovered completely from his acute renal failure. Kidney biopsy showed interstitial nephritis with mononuclear and eosinophilic cellular infiltrates.</p>
BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3746041?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1986 Sep
IS - 3
J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A leprosy patient who developed acute renal failure on multidrug therapy is reported. The patient had initially received a once-weekly dose of rifampin and after he had stopped taking the drug for a time, was given rifampin on a once-monthly dose schedule. He recovered completely from his acute renal failure. Kidney biopsy showed interstitial nephritis with mononuclear and eosinophilic cellular infiltrates.</p>
PY - 1986
SP - 380
EP - 2
T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
TI - Acute renal failure--a complication of new multidrug regimen for treatment of leprosy.
VL - 54
SN - 0148-916X
ER -