Severe leukopenia in a rheumatoid arthritis patient treated with a methotrexate/leflunomide combination.

A rheumatoid arthritis patient was treated for two years with methotrexate and leflunomide combination therapy. The evolution was uneventful until she had clopidogrel, simvastatin, isosorbide, aspirin and omeprazole added to medication due to acute myocardial infarction. Four weeks after this, she was hospitalized with severe leukopenia.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia

• Publication date

  2014-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.RBRE.2014.03.011PMID 24878863
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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