Acyclovir crystalluria: The utility of bedside urine routine microscopic examination

• Hauptverfasser: Puneet Jain (Verfasst von), Ramachandran Rameshkumar (Verfasst von), Ponnarmeni Satheesh (Verfasst von), Subramanian Mahadevan (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Acyclovir, an acyclic nucleoside, is commonly used for the treatment of viral infections. Acyclovir is well tolerated in children. However, severe nephrotoxicity has been shown to occur in some children. One of the mechanisms for acyclovir-induced nephrotoxicity is acyclovir-induced crystalluria. Pr...