Abstract
A patient is described in whom malignant hypertension led to oliguric renal failure. A course of trimethoprim and sulphamethoxazole (co-trimoxazole) was prescribed for an intercurrent urinary tract infection and appeared to precipitate a megaloblastic anaemia which responded satisfactorily to folic acid.
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