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Ann Hepatol
May 2020
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA.
31 years old female with a history of contact dermatitis, eczema, allergic rhinitis, pernicious anemia, alopecia areata and latent tuberculosis was treated concurrently with methotrexate along with isoniazid and pyridoxine. Five months into the therapy she developed acute onset jaundice progressing into fulminant liver failure with altered mentation and worsening liver function tests. Extensive workup including serological and histopathological evaluation revealed drug-induced liver injury as the etiology of her liver failure and she underwent a successful orthotropic liver transplant.
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April 2016
Médico pasante del Servicio Social en Investigación, Unidad de Investigación en Inmunodeficiencias, México, DF, Mexico.
The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is a primary immunodeficiency characterized by congenital microthrombocytopenia, eczema and recurrent infections. This paper reports the case of a 3-year-6-month male patient, whose maternal uncle died at the age of 3 months due to fulminant sepsis from a pulmonary infection. The patient was a product of the first pregnancy, he was born at 27 weeks' gestation and weighed 1,400 g.
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August 1990
University of Wales College of Medicine, Health Park, Cardiff.
Monozygotic twin males with an attenuated variant of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) are described. Diagnostic features included moderate thrombocytopenia with small platelet size and abnormal platelet aggregation responses, chronic eczema, depressed serum IgM and low isoagglutinin titre. Splenectomy was performed on one twin at age seven years who survived a complicating pneumococcal septicaemia ten days after the procedure, but who succumbed to fulminating infection three years later.
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