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American cutaneous leishmaniasis with fatal outcome during pentavalent antimoniate treatment

The authors report a case of a 58 years-old, hypertensive, diabetic female patient, with the diagnosis of American cutaneous leishmaniasis, undergoing treatment with Nmethyl glucamine antimoniate (15mg SbV/Kg/day). She was followed up by the basic health care service, but has died on the 18th treatment day.

Antimony; Death; Drug toxicity; Leishmaniasis, cutaneous; Primary health care


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