Drug hypersensitivity syndrome

Rare multi-organ failure associated with Stevens Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis or drug hypersensitivity syndrome... 

Schlienger RG, Shear NH. Antiepileptic drug hypersensitivity syndrome. Epilepsia 1998 39(Suppl 7) S3-7. 

Eland lA, Dofferhoff AS, Vink R, Zondervan PE, Strieker BH. Cohtis may be part of the antiepileptic drug hypersensitivity syndrome. Epilepsia 1999 40(12) 1780-3. 

Pancytopenia in the setting of severe drug hypersensitivity syndrome due to co-trimoxazole has been reported (83). 

The DRESS syndrome is an acronym for Drug Rash with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms. It is also known as the Drug-Induced Pseudolymphoma and Drug Hypersensitivity Syndrome. The symptoms of DRESS syndrome usually begin I to 8 weeks after exposure to the offending drug. Common causes include carbamazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin, terbinafine, and valproic acid. 

Sullivan JR, Shear NH. The drug hypersensitivity syndrome What is the pathogenesis Arch Dermatol 2001 137 357-364. 

Bocquet H, Bagot M, Roujeau JC (1996) Drug-induced pseudolymphoma and drug hypersensitivity syndrome (drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms DRESS). Semin Cutan Med Surg, 15 250-257. 

Wong GA, Shear NH. Is a drug alone sufficient to cause the drug hypersensitivity syndrome Arch Dermatol 2004 140 226-230. 

Stordeur P, Goldman M (1998) Interleukin-10 as a regulatory cytokine induced by cellular stress molecular aspects. Int Rev Immunol 16 501-522 Sullivan JR, Shear NH (2001) The drug hypersensitivity syndrome what is the pathogenesis Arch Dermatol 137 357-364... 

Scheuerman O, Nofech-Moses Y, Rachmel A, A ikenazi S. Successful treatment of antiepileptic drug hypersensitivity syndrome with intravenous immune globulin. Pediatrics (2001) 107, E14. 

Immunologic A case of drug hypersensitivity syndrome with lithium has been described [57 ]. 

Hematologic Agranulocytosis has been observed as an unexpected progression from a phenytoin-associated antiepileptic drug hypersensitivity syndrome [248 ]. 

Jeddi F, Caumes EC, Thellier M, Jaureguiberry S, Mazier D, Buffet PA. Drug hypersensitivity syndrome induced... 

Brown RJ, Rother KI, Artman H, Mercuric MG, Wang R, Looney RJ, Cowen EW. Minocycline-induced drug hypersensitivity syndrome followed by multiple autoimmune sequelae. Arch Dermatol 2009 145(1) 63-6. 

Moxifloxacin-mduced drug hypersensitivity syndrome with features of toxic epidermal necrolysis has been reported in a 44-year-old Asian man after he had taken moxifloxacin for 1 week [77 ]. 

Weaver CH, Huddleston HM, Kingsley MM, Wolverton SE. Moxifioxa-cin-induced drug hypersensitivity syndrome with features of toxic epidermal necrolysis. J Drugs Dermatol 2009 8(11) 1031-3. 

A 30-year-old woman with lamotrigine-induced drug hypersensitivity syndrome (generalized, erythematous, morbilliform skin eruption with oral and ocular ulcerations) was refractory to dexamethasone treatment but was successfully treated with intravenous immxmoglobulin [86 ]. 

Comfere NI, Sartori-Valinotti JC, Bruce AJ, Drage LA. Successful treatment of lamotrigine-associated drug hypersensitivity syndrome with intravenous IgG. J Am Acad Dermatol June 2012 66(6) e249-50. 

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