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William H. Zinkham, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1977;137(10):1365-1366.

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The increasing exposure of patients to an ever-growing list of drugs and chemicals has led to the definition of a variety of pathophysiologic mechanisms responsible for adverse drug reactions. A major stimulus for many of these studies has been the observation that the same drug administered in the same way and in the same dose to a large number of patients may be toxic to only a few. An important example of this type of phenomenon is the selective hemolytic action of sulfonamides. Soon after the introduction of sulfonamides as antibiotic agents, Harvey and Janeway¹ noted the development of an acute hemolytic anemia in three patients receiving sulfanilamide for bacterial infections. One year later, Wood² emphasized the frequency and selectivity of the phenomenon by observing that 21 of 522 patients treated with sulfanilamide had a hemolytic reaction. Wood also stated that "the majority of patients who have once . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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