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Dapsone-induced haemolytic anaemia and agranulocytosis in a patient with normal glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase

M S Figueiredo1, B O Pinto, M A Zago

  • 1Department of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Ribeirão, Preto, Brazil.

Acta Haematologica
|January 1, 1989
PubMed

A case of dapsone-induced severe haemolytic anaemia and agranulocytosis is described. A possible common pathogenic mechanism for the simultaneous occurrence of these side effects of dapsone therapy in a patient with normal glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase activity is proposed.

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