Vancomycin-induced DRESS with evidence of T-cell activation in a 22-month-old patient

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 280-281

  Kitcharoensakkul, Maleewan ^a   Ree, Nicholas ^b   Bloomberg, Gordon R ^a   Dehner, Louis P ^b   Heidingsfelder, John A ^c   White, Andrew J ^a   Cooper, Megan A ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Forensic Pathology Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BACTEREMIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRESS SYNDROME; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHRODERMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG EDEMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MYOCARDITIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSCESS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84866740894     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: 15344436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2012.07.016     Document Type: Article

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