LESS COMMON SIDE EFFECTS OF METHYLDOPA

1 July 1977

journal article
case report
Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia

Vol. 2 (1) , 14-15
https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1977.tb98992.x

Abstract

A patient with methyldopa‐induced hyperpyrexia who also developed positive antinuclear factors, LE cells and ocular disturbance is described. These side effects disappeared when the drug was withdraw...

Keywords

SIDE EFFECTS
METHYLDOPA
ANTIHYPERTENSIVE DRUGS
POSITIVE ANTINUCLEAR
EFFECTS DISAPPEARED
DEVELOPED POSITIVE
COMMON SIDE
INDUCED HYPERPYREXIA
HYPERPYREXIA WHO

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