Cytomegalovirus disease during severe drug eruptions: Report of 2 cases and retrospective study of 18 patients with drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 145, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1030-1036

  Asano, Yusuke ^a   Kagawa, Hiroaki ^a   Kano, Yoko ^a   Shiohara, Tetsuo ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORTICOSTEROID; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEXILETINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TUMOR; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRESS SYNDROME; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ERUPTION; EPILEPSY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HYPERURICEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; NEURALGIA; PAPULE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEIZURE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN ULCER; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, VIRAL; DRUG ERUPTIONS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349339194     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2009.195     Document Type: Article

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