[Axonal neuropathy and salazosulfapyridine: slow-acetylator phenotype].

Article

[Axonal neuropathy and salazosulfapyridine: slow-acetylator phenotype].

Revue neurologique - 1 Jan 1992

Blin O, Sangla I, Jouglard J, Cottin C, Pellissier J F, Serratrice G

Abstract excerpt

We report a case of an axonal sensorimotor neuropathy involving salazosulphapyridine in a slow-acetylator patient with ulcerative colitis. Rather than hypersensitivity the mechanism of the neuropathy can be assumed to be toxicity. The role played by the respective different metabolites in the occ...

Topics

Acetylation
Colitis, Ulcerative
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Phenotype
Sulfasalazine

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