Indoprofen-induced aplastic anemia in active connective tissue disease detected by drug-specific lymphocyte...

In connective tissue diseases, the differentiation of disease-related hematological aberrations from drug-induced cytotoxic or allergic blood-cell dyscrasias is often difficult. In this paper we report on the positive identification of an indoprofen-induced severe pancytopenia in a multi-drug-treated patient with active systemic lupus erythematosus by use of a drug-specific lymphocyte transformation test.