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V S Amato1, L S de Oliveira, A C Silva, F R Machado, J G Amato, A C Nicodemo, V Amato Neto.
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The authors report a case of a 89 years-old woman with mucocutaneous leishmaniasis and previous diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure, who had been treated with allopurinol for 10 months without healing of lesions. Afterwards, she has been treated with meglumine antimonate, "glucantime" for 4 days, with a total dose 2,380 mg of Sbv, but developed cardiac side effects and hypokalemia, hence the treatment was withdrawn. However, this patient developed total clinical regression of lesions, in spite of she has been received low dose of this drug.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID： 9608241 DOI： 10.1590/s0037-86821998000200008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Rev Soc Bras Med Trop ISSN： 0037-8682 Impact factor: 1.581