Ochronosis from Quinacrine (Atabrine)
Authors: GEORGE D. LUDWIG
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1963)

Case Studies1 September 1963Ochronosis from Quinacrine (Atabrine)GEORGE D. LUDWIG, M.D., JAMES F. TOOLE, M.D., JOHN C. WOOD, M.D.GEORGE D. LUDWIG, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, JAMES F. TOOLE, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, JOHN C. WOOD, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-59-3-378 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptOchronosis is usually associated with the rare hereditary metabolic disease, alcaptonuria, in which there is a defect in the hepatic enzyme, homogentisic acid oxidase, and consequently an accumulation in the blood and spill-over in the urine of homogentisic acid (1, 2). The term "ochronosis" was coined by Virchow (3) in 1866, to describe the grossly blue-black but microscopically yellow-brown (ochre) pigmentation of cartilage and other connective tissue found at necropsy in a 57-year-old man. In 1902, Albrecht (4) first suggested that alcaptonuria might cause ochronosis, and in 1904, Sir William Osler (5) made the first clinical diagnosis of alcaptonuric ochronosis...References1. BUNIMMCGUIREHILBISHLASTERLADUSEEGMILLER JJJSTFLBNJE: Alkaptonuria: Clinical Staff Conference at the National Institutes of Health. Ann. Intern. Med. 47: 1210, 1957. LinkGoogle Scholar2. LADUZANNONLASTERSEEGMILLER BNVLJE: The nature of the defect in tyrosine metabolism in alcaptonuria. J. Biol. Chem. 230: 251, 1958. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. VIRCHOW R: Ein Fall von allgemeiner Ochronose der Knorpel und Knorpelahnlichen theile. Virchow Arch. path. Anat. 37: 212, 1866. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. ALBRECHT H: Ueber ochronose. Z. Heil. path. Anat. 23: 366, 1902. 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