Persistent severe amiodarone-induced photosensitivity

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 500-502

  Yones, S S ^a   O'Donoghue, N B ^a   Palmer, R A ^a   Menagé, H Du P ^a   Hawk, J L M ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; DIGOXIN; FLECAINIDE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROFLUMETHIAZIDE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; PSORALEN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUVA; RASH; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN BIOPSY;

AGED; AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDERS;

EID: 23044502240     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2005.01820.x     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Waitzer S, Butany J, From L et al. Cutaneous ultrastrucrural changes and photosensiyvity associated with amiodarone therapy. J Am Acad Dermatol 1987; 16: 779-87.
2. Harris L, Mckenna WJ, Rowland E et al. Side effects of long-term amiodarone therapy. Circulation 1983; 67: 45-51.
3. Delage C, Lagace R, Huard J. psudocyanotic pigmentation of the skin induced by amiodarone: a light and electron microscopic study. Can Med Assoc J 1975; 112: 1205-8.
4. Trimble JW, Mendelson DS, Fetter BF et al. Cutaneous pigmentation secondary to amiodarone therapy. Arch Dermatol 1983; 119: 914-8.
5. Mckenna WJ, Rowland E, Krikler DM. Amiodarone the experince of the past decade. Br Med J 1983; 87: 1654.
6. Chalmers RJG, Muston HL, Srinivas V, Bennett DH. High incidence of amiodarone-induced photosensitivity in North-West England. Br Med J 1982; 285: 341.
7. Ferguson J, De Vane PJ, Wirth M. Prevention of amiodarone-induced photosensitivity. Lancet, 1984; ii: 414.
8. Hextall JM, Grabczynska SA, Mcgregor JM, Hawk JLM. Postinflammatory cutaneous hyper-reactivity syndrome: localised recurrent painful flushing following physical trauma. In. 83rd Annual Meeting of British Association of Dermatologists 2003: 149 (Suppl. 64) (Abstract).
9. Frain-Bell W, Johnson BE. Contact allergic sensitivity to plants and the photosensitivity dermatitis and actinic reticuloid syndrome. Br J Dermatol 1979; 101: 503-12.
10. Palmer R, Hawk JLM. Light-induced seborrhoeic eczema: severe photoprovocation from subclinical disease. Photodermatol Photoimmunol Photomedicine 2004; 20: 62-3.