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Successful treatment of imported mucosal Leishmania infantum leishmaniasis with miltefosine after severe hypokalemia under meglumine antimoniate treatment.

Abstract

Old World mucosal leishmaniasis is a rare but regularly reported disease in Southern Europe. We report the case of a 64-year-old woman who developed severe hypokalemia under meglumine antimoniate treatment and was successfully treated under second line therapy with miltefosine.

Entities: Chemical Disease Species

Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Travel Med ISSN： 1195-1982 Impact factor: 8.490

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