Photosensitivity due to Ampiroxicam

Photosensitivity due to ampiroxicam.

Photosensitivity due to thiazides.

Thiazides are widely used diuretics that first became available in the 1950s. The first reports of photosensitivity reactions to thiazides were published shortly after the introduction of these drugs, but few cases have been described since. We review all the cases of photosensitivity due to thiazides published up to December 2011. We found 62 cases, 33 in women and 29 in men. The most common p...

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Photosensitivity Ampiroxicam Piroxicam Photopatch test Minoru Chishiki, MD, Department of Dermatology, National Defense Medical College, Namiki 3-2, Tokorozawa City, Saitama 359 (Japan), Tel. +81 429 95 1665, Fax +81 429 96 5209 Piroxicam is known to induce photosensitivity. Ampiroxicam has been developed as an ethoxycarbonyl ether prodrug of piroxicam. We describe here a case with photosensiti...

Transient Worsening of Photosensitivity due to Cholelithiasis in a Variegate Porphyria Patient

Variegate porphyria (VP) is an autosomal dominant disease caused by mutations of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPOX) gene. This porphyria has unique characteristics which can induce acute neurovisceral attacks and cutaneous lesions that may occur separately or together. We herin report a 58-years-old VP patient complicated with cholelithiasis. A sequencing analysis indicated a novel c.40G>C m...

Mechanism of photosensitivity reactions to diseased celery.