Allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome: A preventable severe cutaneous adverse reaction?

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 384-387

  Lee, Haur Yueh ^a   Ariyasinghe, J T N ^a   Thirumoorthy, T ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Allopurinol; Cutaneous adverse reaction; Drug hypersensitivity; Drug induced hypersensitivity syndrome; Stevens Johnson syndrome; Toxic epidermal necrolysis

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL;

AGED; AGING; ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRESS SYNDROME; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EOSINOPHILIA; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GOUT; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TUMOR LYSIS SYNDROME; URIC ACID NEPHROPATHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOPURINOL; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GOUT SUPPRESSANTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 44149110334     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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