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[Minocycline-induced lupus erythematodes].

Klinische Pharmakologie & Toxikologie, regionales Pharmacovigilance-Zentrum, Universitätsspital, Basel.
Praxis 09/2006; 95(35):1297-303. pp.1297-303
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ABSTRACT We report the case of an 18-year-old woman with arthralgia and swelling of distal joints at hands and feet, photosensitive reaction, butterfly rash, fatigue, tachypnea and unspecific cardiac pain three months after beginning a treatment with minocycline for acne. Recurrence of symptoms at a higher intensity occurred within hours of reexposition with minocycline. The antinuclear antibody test was positive. After withdrawal of minocycline, the symptoms improved and minocycline-induced lupus was diagnosed. In the Swissmedic and WHO adverse drug reaction databases 267 other cases of possible minocycline-induced lupus were identified. Typical clinical and laboratory features are arthralgia, arthritis, myalgia, increased transaminases and/or jaundice, unspecific symptoms like fatigue and fever, skin disorders and positive antinuclear antibodies.

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Keywords

18-year-old woman
 
acne
 
antinuclear antibody test
 
butterfly rash
 
cases
 
distal joints
 
fatigue
 
higher intensity
 
laboratory features
 
minocycline-induced lupus
 
myalgia
 
photosensitive reaction
 
possible minocycline-induced lupus
 
reexposition
 
skin disorders
 
Swissmedic
 
Typical clinical
 
unspecific cardiac pain
 
unspecific symptoms
 

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