Cyclophosphamide Therapy for Corticoresistant Drug Reaction With Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) Syndrome in a Patient With Severe Kidney and Eye Involvement and Epstein-Barr Virus Reactivation

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Laban, Emilie ^a   Hainaut Wierzbicka, Eva ^a   Pourreau, François ^a   Yacoub, Mokrane ^a   Sztermer, Emilie ^a   Guillet, Gérard ^a   Touchard, Guy ^a   Bridoux, Frank ^a  

^a POITIERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

acute interstitial nephritis; cyclophosphamide; Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome; kidney failure; posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUOXETINE; IBUPROFEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRESS SYNDROME; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EYE EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG TOXICITY; EOSINOPHILIA; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77049085903     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2009.10.054     Document Type: Article

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