| Literature DB >> 22346260 |
Gun-Wook Kim1, Hyun-Je Park, Hoon-Soo Kim, Su-Han Kim, Hyun-Chang Ko, Byung-Soo Kim, Moon-Bum Kim.
Abstract
Herein, we report a case of an 8-year-old girl with dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome (DHS) that occurred during the treatment of erythema elevatum diutinum. She had fever, gross hematuria, and malaise for three weeks after initiation of dapsone therapy. Five days after stopping dapsone treatment, she returned to the emergency clinic because of high fever, emesis, diarrhea, upper respiratory symptoms, and worsening of exanthematous eruptions. A diagnosis of DHS was made, and it improved with oral prednisone. We recommend that pediatric patients who are treated with dapsone need to be observed carefully for the development of DHS.Entities:
Keywords: Dapsone; Drug hypersensitivity syndrome; Erythema elevatum diutinum
Year: 2011 PMID: 22346260 PMCID: PMC3276779 DOI: 10.5021/ad.2011.23.S3.S290
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann Dermatol ISSN: 1013-9087 Impact factor: 1.444