Allergic diseases of the skin and drug allergies – 2027. Successful treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin and prednisolone pulse therapy of toxic epidemal necrolysis and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
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Methods Our patient is a 64 year-old female, who had glioma and had been on post-op anticonvulsants therapy. On the 3rd day after she had an operation, lansoprazole was added to the therapy. After the first lansoprazole dose erythematous dusky red macules were occured in extremities and trunk and on the following day confluent purpuric lesions tended to run together in 95% of the whole body including scalp and, oral and genital mucosa. Nikolsky’s Sign was positive on the skin. Body temparature was 38.4°C with heart rate of 146beats/min. GlascowComaScale was E1M1e, pupillary light reflex was 2/2+/+. SCORTEN was calculated as 5 and her biopsy resulted as TEN.
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دوره 6 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2013