Author Affiliations: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire (Drs Ogrinc, Davies, Goodman, and Batalden); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, New Hampshire (Drs Ogrinc, Davies, Goodman, Batalden, Davidoff, and Stevens); Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont (Drs Ogrinc, Davies, and Goodman); and Inst...

1 Sven K. Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030 [email protected] 2 Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030 [email protected] Abstract Engineering design represents a process of decision making under condit...

A 13-year-old boy was brought to the emergency department (ED) with a generalized itchy rash of 2 days' duration. For the past 3 days, he had dry, itchy eyes with a purulent discharge (Figure 1) and nonbilious emesis 2 or 3 times per day, with some blood streaks in the vomitus on the third day of illness. Chills developed on the third day, but the patient's temperature was not measured. His lip...

AIMS To understand the immunopathogenesis of the corneal conjunctivalisation in Stevens-Johnson syndrome. METHODS Conjunctivalised corneas from five patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome were studied immunohistochemically for several cell surface antigens and two cytokines. Chemical injury specimens were also studied. RESULTS In all cases, immunohistochemistry revealed LFA-1, CD4, CD8, and...

Stevens-Johnson syndrome is characterized by generalized exanthema associated with high fever, catarrhal symptoms and mucositis. Various etiologies have been implicated, particularly numerous medications and certain agents of atypical pneumonia. Stevens-Johnson syndrome leads to death in up to 5% of cases. We describe the case of a 30-year-old woman with bilateral atypical pneumonia accompanied...

On revisite des articles de Eichler et Shimura afin donner une formule algebrique (ba-see sur les symboles Farey) pour le produit d'intersection l'espace modu-laires tel qu'il est decrit par Pollack Stevens. definit l'homomorphisme periodes d'une serie d'Eisenstein (symbole d'Eisenstein-Dedekind-Stevens) on etend d'intersec-tion a ces objets. construit base adaptee un traitement algorithmique s...

REPORT OF A CASE SUCCESSFUL PREGNANCY AND DELIVERY FOLLOWING DRUG REACTION STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME

AIM Stevens Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis are severe acute mucocutaneous diseases. In this study, we evaluated the clinical aspects of Steven Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis and Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis overlap patients who admitted to our clinics in the last five years. MATERIAL AND METHODS Eleven patients diagnosed as Stevens-Johnson...