NDT Advance Access originally published online on February 9, 2006
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(7):1992-1993; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl028
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Case Report
Ticlopidine-induced lupus with renal involvement
1 Department of Nephrology, and Kidney & Dialysis Center and 2 Department of Pharmacy, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, 1202-1 Yamazaki, Kamakura, 247-8533, Japan
Correspondence and offprint requests to: Takayasu Ohtake, MD, PhD, Department of Nephrology and Kidney and Dialysis Center, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, 1202-1 Yamazaki, Kamakura, 247-8533, Japan. Email: ohtake@shonankamakura.or.jp
Keywords: drug-induced lupus; mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis; renal involvement; systemic lupus erythematosus; ticlopidine
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Ticlopidine hydrochloride is a platelet aggregation inhibitor that is used for the prevention of vascular thrombosis. So far, only six cases of ticlopidine-induced lupus have been documented in the literature [13]. We report here a first case of ticlopidine-induced lupus with renal involvement.
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