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 Dogukana, Erdogan Ilkayb, Orhan Kürşat Poyrazoğlua, Ali Ihsan Gunala, Metin Ozgena, Murat Pekdemirc

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.

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