Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms syndrome (DRESS) syndrome associated with azithromycin presenting like septic shock: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sriratanaviriyakul, Narin ^a,b,c   Nguyen, Lam Phuong ^a,b,c   Henderson, Mark C ^b   Albertson, Timothy E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Azithromycin hypersensitivity; DRESS syndrome; Drug allergy; Drug induced hypersensitivity syndrome; Eosinophilia; Erythroderma

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZITHROMYCIN; AZTREONAM; CLINDAMYCIN; CREATININE; DEXTROMETHORPHAN PLUS PROMETHAZINE; MEROPENEM; NITROGEN; NORADRENALIN; STEROID; UREA; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BODY SURFACE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; COUGHING; CRACKLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DESQUAMATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRESS SYNDROME; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EOSINOPHIL; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPEREMIA; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LICHENOID ERUPTION; LUNG EDEMA; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUTROPHIL; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PETECHIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRURITUS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN INFECTION; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOBACCO USE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; WHEEZING; XEROSTOMIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 84907933033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-8-332     Document Type: Article

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