Multiple Adverse Effects Of Pyridium: A Case Report

Multiple Adverse Effects Of Pyridium: A Case Report

Haigh C; Dewar J C

Southern Medical Journal

2006

2006-01

Pyridium (phenazopyridine hydrochloride) is often prescribed as an analgesic in patients following trauma, surgery, or infections of the urinary tract. Pyridium toxicity has been previously reported, however, most cases result in a single adverse effect. Herein the authors describe an elderly patient who presented with simultaneous multiple adverse effects, including a previously undocumented myelosuppressive pancytopenia.

acute renal-failure; General & Internal Medicine; geriatrics; hemolytic-anemia; methemoglobinemia; myelosuppressive pancytopenia; phenazopyridine hydrochloride; pigmentation; pyridium

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