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Year : 2013 | Volume
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| Issue : 5 | Page : 524-525 |
Heart failure induced by itraconazole
Hizir Okuyan1, Cihan Altin2
1 Department of Cardiology, Sakarya Education and Research Hospital, Adapazari, Sakarya, Turkey 2 Department of Cardiology, Yenimahalle State Hospital, 06370, Ankara, Turkey
Correspondence Address:
Hizir Okuyan Department of Cardiology, Sakarya Education and Research Hospital, Adapazari, Sakarya Turkey
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DOI: 10.4103/0253-7613.117751
Itraconazole is a broad-spectrum antifungal agent. It rarely leads to adverse the cardiovascular effects, especially heart failure. We present here a case of a 60-year-old female patient with itraconazole induced heart failure.
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