| Journal: | Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000281870 |
| ISSN: | 0037-8682 |
| Authors: | Amato, Valdir Sabbaga1 Oliveira, Luciana Silveira de Silva, Anita Campos Mendonca Machado, Flavia Ribeiro Amato, Juliane Gomes de Paula Nicodemo, Antonio Carlos Amato-Neto, Vicente |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo. Brasil |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Season: | Mar-Abr |
| Volumen: | 31 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Pages: | 221-224 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Experimental |
| English abstract | The authors report a case of a 89 years-old woman with mucocutaneous leishmaniasis and previous diabetes mellitus and high blood pression, who had been treated with allopurinol for 10 months without healing of lesions. Afterwards, she has been treated with meglumine antimonate, "glucantime" for 4 days, with a total dose 2,380mg of Sbv, but developed cardiacs side effects and hypokalemia, hence the treatment was wihtdrawn. However, this patient developed total clinical regression of lesions, in spite of she has been recieved low dose of this drug |
| Portuguese abstract | The authors report a case of a 89 years-old woman with mucocutaneous leishmaniasis and previous diabetes mellitus and high blood pression, who had been treated with allopurinol for 10 months without healing of lesions. Afterwards, she has been treated with meglumine antimonate, "glucantime" for 4 days, with a total dose 2,380mg of Sbv, but developed cardiacs side effects and hypokalemia, hence the treatment was wihtdrawn. However, this patient developed total clinical regression of lesions, in spite of she has been recieved low dose of this drug |
| Disciplines: | Biología, Medicina |
| Keyword: | Parasitología, Protozoarios, Terapéutica y rehabilitación, Leishmaniasis cutánea americana, Leishmaniasis mucocutánea, Alopurinol, Antimonio pentavalente |
| Keyword: | Biology, Medicine, Parasitology, Protozoa, Therapeutics and rehabilitation, American cutaneous leishmaniasis, Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, Allopurinol, Pentavalent antimonials |
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