Ammad Ud Din, Mohammad and Ather Hussain, Syed and Bodrog, Amy (2021) Delayed Recognition of Levetiracetam-induced Pancytopenia. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 8 (3). pp. 1-4. ISSN ISSN: 2284-2594
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Abstract
Blood dyscrasias associated with levetiracetam use can be difficult to identify, especially when other potential differential diagnoses are concurrently present. Here we present a 57-year-old man with metastatic adenocarcinoma of unknown primary origin on levetiracetam who initially presented with an in-stent thrombosis of the right external iliac vein and then developed worsening thrombocytopenia followed by pancytopenia. Levetiracetam was not identified as the culprit until other causes like platelet consumption, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, idiopathic immune thrombocytopenic purpura, and bone marrow involvement by metastatic disease were ruled out.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Drug-induced-pancytopenia, thrombocytopenia, levetiracetam, hematology, anti-epileptics |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Dec 2021 14:42 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Dec 2021 14:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/21194 |
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