Liver transplantation in a child with acute liver failure resulting from drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms syndrome

Korean Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 224-226

  Song, Seung Min ^a   Cho, Min Sung ^a   Oh, Seak Hee ^a   Kim, Kyung Mo ^a   Park, Young Seo ^a   Kim, Dae Yeon ^a   Lee, Sung Gyu ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; DRESS syndrome; Liver transplantation; Vancomycin

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; BILIRUBIN GLUCURONIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CUSHING SYNDROME; DRESS SYNDROME; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEAT SENSATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NAUSEA; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRURITUS; SIDE EFFECT; UREMIA; VOMITING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84878430931     PISSN: 17381061     EISSN: 20927258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3345/kjp.2013.56.5.224     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Bocquet H, Bagot M, Roujeau JC. Drug-induced pseudolymphoma and drug hypersensitivity syndrome (drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms: DRESS). Semin Cutan Med Surg 1996; 15:250-7.
2. Sparsa A, Loustaud-Ratti V, Mousset-Hovaere M, De Vencay P, Le Brun V, Liozon E, et al. Drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome in internal medicine: diagnostic and therapeutic traps. Eight observations. Rev Med Interne 2000;21:1052-9.
3. Eshki M, Allanore L, Musette P, Milpied B, Grange A, Guillaume JC, et al. Twelve-year analysis of severe cases of drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms: a cause of unpredictable multiorgan failure. Arch Dermatol 2009;145:67-72.
4. Oh SH, Kim KM, Kim DY, Lee YJ, Rhee KW, Jang JY, et al. Longterm outcomes of pediatric living donor liver transplantation at a single institution. Pediatr Transplant 2010;14:870-8.
5. Oh SH, Kim KM, Kim KY, Lee YJ, Lee SG. Clinical experience of liver transplantation in children with acute liver failure [abstract #O-94]. In: 2011 Joint International Congress of ILTS, ELITA, & LICAGE; 2011 Jun 22-25; Valencia, Spain. Mount Laurel: International Liver Transplantation Society; 2011.
6. Kim DH, Kim IS, Park J, Yoo KH, Park KY, Li K, et al. A case of carbamazepine-induced DRESS syndrome. Korean J Asthma Allergy Clin Immunol 2011;31:59-62.
7. Jeon EK, Lee KM, Kwon YB, Seo YJ, Park JK, Lee JH. Three cases of allopurinol-induced DRESS syndrome. Korean J Dermatol 2007;45:714-9.
8. Mennicke M, Zawodniak A, Keller M, Wilkens L, Yawalkar N, Stickel F, et al. Fulminant liver failure after vancomycin in a sulfasalazine-induced DRESS syndrome: fatal recurrence after liver transplantation. Am J Transplant 2009;9:2197-202.
9. Syn WK, Naisbitt DJ, Holt AP, Pirmohamed M, Mutimer DJ. Carbamazepine-induced acute liver failure as part of the DRESS syndrome. Int J Clin Pract 2005;59:988-91.
10. Vauthey L, Uckay I, Abrassart S, Bernard L, Assal M, Ferry T, et al. Vancomycin-induced DRESS syndrome in a female patient. Pharmacology 2008;82:138-41.
11. Jeung YJ, Lee JY, Oh MJ, Choi DC, Lee BJ. Comparison of the causes and clinical features of drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms and Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Allergy Asthma Immunol Res 2010;2:123-6.
12. Roujeau JC, Stern RS. Severe adverse cutaneous reactions to drugs. N Engl J Med 1994;331:1272-85.
13. Artukovic M, Kustelega J, Lugovic-Mihic L. DRESS syndrome with mild manifestations as a diagnostic and therapeutic problem: case report. Acta Clin Croat 2010;49:479-84.