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Fever and rigors as sole symptoms of azathioprine hypersensitivity
P J Smak Gregoor1, J L van Saase, W Weimar
1Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, St. Clara Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
The case history of a haemodialysis patient with fever and rigors is presented. This diagnostic problem turned out to be a hypersensitivity reaction to azathioprine, with identical complaints recurring after a rechallenge with azathioprine, findings which resolved on discontinuation of this drug. The more extended indications for use of azathioprine warrant attention to the possibility of side-effects like drug fever.