[Granulocytopenia with cimetidine therapy (author's transl)]

In a 38-year-old patient with alcoholic liver cirrhosis and haemorrhage from a gastric ulcer, granulocytopenia occurred during cimetidine treatment. It was reversible after therapy was stopped. The platelet count also fell during cimetidine and a reduction of megakaryocytes was found in the bone marrow.