Arthralgia associated with captopril.

Cough associated with captopril and enalapril.

Thirty three reports of cough associated with captopril and 26 associated with enalapril received by the New Zealand intensive medicines monitoring programme were reviewed. The programme is a specialised part of the New Zealand postmarketing surveillance system. Review of these reports showed that the cough was an adverse reaction to the drugs, occurred even with low dose treatment, and was sev...

Hemodynamic and volume changes associated with captopril.

The effects of captopril on bemodynamic, rolmne, and neurohumoral indices were inrestigated in 33 patients with essential hypertension or renal arterial disease. Changes associated with treatment were studied under two conditions: immediately (V4 to 1 boar) after administration of the drug, or after 5 to 7 days of therapy. Blood pressure (BP) reduction in both conditions was due to a reduction ...

Captopril-associated agranulocytosis.

Docetaxel-associated myalgia–arthralgia syndrome in patients with breast cancer

BACKGROUND As taxanes are increasingly used in oncology, the myalgia-arthralgia syndrome (M-AS) that represents an adverse effect of these drugs is becoming more common. Nevertheless, information regarding predisposing factors, prevention, and therapy of the syndrome is still lacking. PATIENTS AND METHODS Women who had received docetaxel as part of the FEC-D(T) regimen for the adjuvant treatm...

A man with intermittent fever and arthralgia.

Case report A 44 year old, previously healthy, white man, who was a milk depot manager, was referred to a general physician in November 1991 with a 16 month history of febrile episodes, lasting for three or four days, which recurred approximately every six weeks. During the episodes his temperature rose to 40°C, he felt flu-like and had aching limbs and profuse night sweats. He had no other sym...