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Case Reports
. 1977;18(4):249-51.
doi: 10.1159/000180836.

Diphenylhydantoin-induced acute renal failure

B N Agarwal, F G Cabebe, B I Hoffman
Case Reports

Diphenylhydantoin-induced acute renal failure

B N Agarwal et al. Nephron. 1977.

Abstract

A case of acute renal failure developing at two separate times after the use of diphenylhydantoin is described. On both occasions the patient also had other manifestations of a hypersensitivity reaction and recovered normal renal function after the withdrawal of the drug and institution of corticosteroid therapy.

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