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minocycline

Pathology

- drug-induced hepatitis (minocycline-induced hepatitis)

  • drug-induced acute hepatitis

- minocycline-induced pneumonitis
- drug-induced immune thrombocytopenic purpura (DITP) (#12848117#)
- autoimmune features

  • minocycline-induced lupus
  • serum anti-nuclear antibodies
  • elevated immunoglobulin G
  • perinuclear antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody (pANCA)

- lupus-like syndromes
- serum sickness
- infectious mononucleosis-like syndrome
- vasculitis

  • necrotizing vasculitis of medium-sized arteries
    • perinuclear antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody-positive cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa

- Sweet syndrome
- hyperpigmentation

See also

- drug-induced hepatitis with autoimmune features
- immune-mediated drug-induced liver disease
- drug-induced immune-mediated hepatic injury

References

- Goldstein NS, Bayati N, Silverman AL, Gordon SC. Minocycline as a cause of drug-induced autoimmune hepatitis. Report of four cases and comparison with autoimmune hepatitis. Am J Clin Pathol. 2000 Oct;114(4):591-8. PMID: #11026106#

- Eichenfield AH. Minocycline and autoimmunity. Curr Opin Pediatr. 1999 Oct;11(5):447-56. PMID: #10555598#

- Elkayam O, Yaron M, Caspi D. Minocycline-induced autoimmune syndromes: an overview. Semin Arthritis Rheum. 1999 Jun;28(6):392-7. PMID: #10406406#