Acyclovir crystalluria: The utility of bedside urine routine microscopic examination

• मुख्य लेखकों: Puneet Jain (लेखक), Ramachandran Rameshkumar (लेखक), Ponnarmeni Satheesh (लेखक), Subramanian Mahadevan (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: 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...