DRESS syndrome with fatal results induced by sodium valproate in a patient with brucellosis and a positive cytoplasmic antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody test result

Rheumatology International

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2181-2184

  Albayrak, Fatih ^a   Cerrah, Serkan ^a   Albayrak, Ayse ^a   Dursun, Hakan ^a   Yildirim, Rahsan ^a   Uyanik, Abdullah ^b  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Erzurum Region Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; C ANCA; DRESS syndrome; Wegener granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CEFTRIAXONE; HEMOGLOBIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; ROSE BENGAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; COOMBS TEST; COUGHING; DEATH; DRESS SYNDROME; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDEMA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EYE JAUNDICE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; HYPERTROPHY; INTENSIVE CARE; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; JAUNDICE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LEG MOVEMENT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; SPLEEN DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TONSIL DISEASE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRUCELLOSIS; DRUG ERUPTIONS; EOSINOPHILIA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; STREPTOMYCIN; SYNDROME; VALPROIC ACID; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863983250     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-010-1463-9     Document Type: Article

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