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Fatal quinine-induced thrombocytopenia from pulmonary haemorrhage. 2014

C B Samaranayake, and E Yap

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

Severe drug-induced thrombocytopenia is a well known but rare complication of quinine. This paper presents a discussion on quinine-induced thrombocytopenia based on a patient who developed fatal thrombocytopenia and pulmonary haemorrhage.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D011803	Quinine	An alkaloid derived from the bark of the cinchona tree. It is used as an antimalarial drug, and is the active ingredient in extracts of the cinchona that have been used for that purpose since before 1633. Quinine is also a mild antipyretic and analgesic and has been used in common cold preparations for that purpose. It was used commonly and as a bitter and flavoring agent, and is still useful for the treatment of babesiosis. Quinine is also useful in some muscular disorders, especially nocturnal leg cramps and myotonia congenita, because of its direct effects on muscle membrane and sodium channels. The mechanisms of its antimalarial effects are not well understood.	Biquinate,Legatrim,Myoquin,Quinamm,Quinbisan,Quinbisul,Quindan,Quinimax,Quinine Bisulfate,Quinine Hydrochloride,Quinine Lafran,Quinine Sulfate,Quinine Sulphate,Quinine-Odan,Quinoctal,Quinson,Quinsul,Strema,Surquina,Bisulfate, Quinine,Hydrochloride, Quinine,Sulfate, Quinine,Sulphate, Quinine
D006469	Hemoptysis	Expectoration or spitting of blood originating from any part of the RESPIRATORY TRACT, usually from hemorrhage in the lung parenchyma (PULMONARY ALVEOLI) and the BRONCHIAL ARTERIES.	Hemoptyses
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368	Aged	A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.	Elderly
D013921	Thrombocytopenia	A subnormal level of BLOOD PLATELETS.	Thrombopenia,Thrombocytopenias,Thrombopenias
D017809	Fatal Outcome	Death resulting from the presence of a disease in an individual, as shown by a single case report or a limited number of patients. This should be differentiated from DEATH, the physiological cessation of life and from MORTALITY, an epidemiological or statistical concept.	Fatal Outcomes,Outcome, Fatal,Outcomes, Fatal
D018712	Analgesics, Non-Narcotic	A subclass of analgesic agents that typically do not bind to OPIOID RECEPTORS and are not addictive. Many non-narcotic analgesics are offered as NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS.	Non Opioid Analgesic,Non-Opioid Analgesic,Nonopioid Analgesic,Nonopioid Analgesics,Analgesics, Nonnarcotic,Analgesics, Nonopioid,Non-Opioid Analgesics,Analgesic, Non Opioid,Analgesic, Non-Opioid,Analgesic, Nonopioid,Analgesics, Non Narcotic,Analgesics, Non-Opioid,Non Opioid Analgesics,Non-Narcotic Analgesics,Nonnarcotic Analgesics,Opioid Analgesic, Non

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