Fulminant liver failure after vancomycin in a sulfasalazine-induced DRESS syndrome: Fatal recurrence after liver transplantation: Case report

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2197-2202

  Mennicke, M ^a   Zawodniak, A ^b   Keller, M ^b   Wilkens, L ^c   Yawalkar, N ^d   Stickel, F ^a   Keogh, A ^a   Inderbitzin, D ^a   Candinas, D ^a   Pichler, W J ^b  

^a University Clinic for Visceral Surgery and Medicine

^b Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology/Allergology   (Switzerland)

^c Pathology ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cytotoxic T cells; DRESS; Drug hypersensitivity; Drug induced hepatitis; FasL; GranzymeB; Liver transplantation; Sulfasalazine; Vancomycin

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B; BASILIXIMAB; CASPOFUNGIN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; FAS LIGAND; GRANZYME B; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRESS SYNDROME; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ARTHRITIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EOSINOPHILIA; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FATAL OUTCOME; GRANZYMES; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SULFASALAZINE; SYNDROME; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 69149097823     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02788.x     Document Type: Article

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