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Rheumatic manifestations of current pharmacopeia
J Brenner1, B M Solitar, B D Golden
1Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, New York University Medical Center, 560 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Current Rheumatology Reports
|December 21, 2000
Abstract:
Patient complaints arising as manifestations of medication side effects are commonly encountered in clinical practice. A rheumatologist must routinely consider side effects of drugs in the differential diagnosis of many symptoms. This review will remind the reader of certain well-described and some newly reported side effects commonly encountered in an internal medicine practice. Focal points incude arthralgias/arthritis, myopathy/myositis, ANA/drug-induced lupus, bone loss/osteoporosis, and tendon rupture.