Drug induced pancytopenia is not an uncommon. Carbamazepine induced pancytopenia (frequency not defined until now), while patient should be regularly monitored
Iatrogenic causes of pancytopenia include chemotherapy for malignancies if the drug or drugs used cause bone marrow suppression. Rarely, drugs (antibiotics, blood pressure medication, heart medication) can cause pancytopenia. For example, the antibiotic chloramphenicol can cause pancytopenia in some individuals. [1]
Environmental Causes of Pancytopenia - Various environmental factors such as medications, toxins, or infections can also lead to pancytopenia, which includes - Certain medications, including some antibiotics or immunosuppressant drugs.
Certain medications ; In about half of all cases of pancytopenia, the cause is unknown. Other pancytopenia-causing infections may have disease-specific prevention steps. For instance, with HIV
by P Parajuli 2024 Cited by 8marrow suppression and malignant bone marrow infiltration [3]. Drug-induced pancytopenia is an intrinsic cause of pancytopenia and is mostly
2 Drugs can cause pancytopenia by different mechanisms, such as bone anti thyroid medication causing pancytopenia requires stoppage
by T Alzahrani 2024❖ This case will serve to spread awareness of a rare cause of pancytopenia and to hypothesize how this medication causes pancytopenia. Fig 3: Graphs
Chloramphenicol was initiated which caused pancytopenia. We report an adverse drug reaction chloramphenicol induced pancytopenia in a patient
Some drugs known to cause pancytopenia. – An'-‐neoplas'c drugs (expected effect). – An'-‐convulsants. – An'-‐thyroid drugs. Drugs causing pancytopenia. Page
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