Additive nephrotoxicity from roentgenographic contrast media. Its occurrence in phenazopyridine-induced acute renal...

A 68-year-old woman had reversible nonoliguric acute renal failure and yellow pigmentation of her skin and sclerae after ingesting phenazopyridine hydrochloride, 200 mg four times a day for six weeks. Although she began to recover renal function promptly after the drug therapy was discontinued, there was a further decline in her glomerular filtration rate after an oral cholecystogram and intravenous pyelogram. Phenazopyridine-induced acute renal failure is rare, but its early recognition is important so that additional nephrotoxicity from studies using roentgenographic contrast material may be avoided in patients with this problem.