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Carbamazepine-associated acute tubulointerstitial nephritis
J W Eijgenraam1, E J Buurke, J S van der Laan
1Department of Internal Medicine, Westeinde Hospital, The Hague, Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
The case history of a patient developing tubulointerstitial nephritis (TIN) during carbamazepine therapy is described. After withdrawal of the drug and introduction of prednisone renal function normalised. TIN is a rare side-effect of carbamazepine of which only a few cases have been described. There seems to be a remarkable time interval of 2 months between the onset of therapy with carbamazepine and the development of TIN.