A case of drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome with multiple organ involvement treated with plasma exchange

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 412-416

  Higuchi, Makoto ^a   Agatsuma, Toshihiko ^a   Iizima, Miwako ^a   Yamazaki, Yoriko ^a   Saita, Toshiaki ^a   Ichikawa, Tohru ^a   Kamijo, Yuji ^a   Arakura, Hideo ^a   Hora, Kazuhiko ^a   Kiyosawa, Kendo ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid resistant drug induced hypersensitivity syndrome; Diaphenylsulfone; Human herpes virus 6; Hypersensitivity syndrome; Plasma exchange

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DAPSONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RELAPSE; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC ERYTHEMATOUS EXANTHEM; TREATMENT INDICATION; DRUG ERUPTION; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DAPSONE; DRUG ERUPTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA EXCHANGE; SYNDROME;

EID: 33645455043     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2005.00320.x     Document Type: Article

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