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epsilon-Aminocaproic acid-associated myopathy in a child
S S Winter1, S Chaffee, S G Kahler
1Division of Hematology-Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
|February 1, 1995
Abstract
Purpose:
A 12-year-old girl developed severe autoimmune thrombocytopenia after a bone marrow transplant for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Results:
Although epsilon-aminocaproic acid helped to control her bleeding, it eventually caused a rare myopathy previously undescribed in a pediatric patient.
Conclusion:
The myopathy resolved when the drug was discontinued and a different antifibrinolytic agent was used.