Samaranayake C B, Yap E
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.
Intern Med J. 2014 Apr;44(4):423-5. doi: 10.1111/imj.12393.
Severe drug-induced thrombocytopenia is a well known but rare complication of quinine. This paper presents a discussion on quinine-induced thrombocytopenia based on a patient who developed fatal thrombocytopenia and pulmonary haemorrhage.