Acyclovir crystalluria: The utility of bedside urine routine microscopic examination

• Hlavní autoři: Puneet Jain (Autor), Ramachandran Rameshkumar (Autor), Ponnarmeni Satheesh (Autor), Subramanian Mahadevan (Autor)
• Médium: Kniha
• Vydáno: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Témata: article
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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...