Atrial Fibrillation Due to Oral Methylprednisolone in a Patient with Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis

Dogukan, Ayhan; Ilkay, Erdogan; Poyrazoğlu, Orhan Kürşat; Gunal, Ali Ihsan; Ozgen, Metin; Pekdemir, Murat

doi:10.14712/18059694.2017.34

Acta Medica > Archive > 2008, Vol. 51 > Issue 1 > Atrial Fibrillation Due to Oral…

Acta Med. 2008, 51: 63-64

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2017.34

Atrial Fibrillation Due to Oral Methylprednisolone in a Patient with Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis

Ayhan Dogukan^a, Erdogan Ilkay^b, Orhan Kürşat Poyrazoğlu^a, Ali Ihsan Gunal^a, Metin Ozgen^a, Murat Pekdemir^c

^aFirat University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nephrology, Elazig, Turkey
^bFirat University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Elazig, Turkey
^cFirat University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Elazig, Turkey

Received September 1, 2007
Accepted January 1, 2008

Cardiac adverse effects of intravenous pulse methylprednisolone administration are well known, but there is little information about the cardiac side effects of oral methylprednisolone in the literature. We present a 41 year-old man with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in whom developed atrial fibrillation after oral methylprednisolone therapy.