Drug-induced lupus is a syndrome which share symptoms and laboratory characteristics with idiopathic systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The terms drug-induced lupus (DIL) and drug-induced lupus erythematosus (DILE) are preferred, but other ones are also used-drug-related lupus, lupus-like syndrome...
Approximately half the patients with drug-induced SLE are women, compared with 92% of patients with idiopathic SLE. For SLE induced by hydralazine or procainamide, musculoskeletal symptoms (especially arthritis in the hands and wrists) are the most common clinical manifestation. In patients with SLE...
especially in women. Urge incontinence and irritive symptoms may be caused by drugs. Anticholinergics, anaesthetics and analgesics cause urinary retention because of failure of bladder contraction. They are more likely to cause retention
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Drug-induced systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is defined by the occurrence of SLE symptoms following continuous administration of a drug (3 weeks to 2 years) and by the immediate reversal of the disease process upon cessation of drug treatment. This disease has been associated in more than ...
10,11,13 Women have been associated with a longer baseline QTc interval and have an increased propensity for experiencing drug-induced torsades de pointes (TdP).22,23 Although some of these sex-based differences are illustrated in examples found in older studies, the accumulating evidence has now...
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Young women are also at high risk for drug-induced porphyria, as shown in this study. Regarding elderly patients, porphyria AEs were frequently reported due to the higher number of drugs prescribed for multiple comorbidities, increasing the risk of encountering porphyrinogenic drugs. Approximately 90...
Drug-induced cognitive impairment (DICI) is a well-established, yet under-recognised, complication of many types of pharmacological treatment. While there
Typically, we see drug-induced psychosis and paranoia in stimulant and cannabis use. Those symptoms do tend to improve as the patient maintains sobriety. However, what then comes into play is an underlying level of anxiety, depression, or another issue. What we would say at that point is the...