Stevens - Johnson Syndrome Induced by Sodium Valproate

A case of Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) following treatment with sodium valproate is presented. A 55-year-old male suffering from manic episode was treated with sodium valproate in addition to haloperidol and trihexiphenidyl. After two weeks he developed cutaneous manifestations of SJS. He was trea...

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Autores principales: Kumar, P.N. Suresh, Kumar, S. Kishore
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2004
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21224910
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description A case of Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) following treatment with sodium valproate is presented. A 55-year-old male suffering from manic episode was treated with sodium valproate in addition to haloperidol and trihexiphenidyl. After two weeks he developed cutaneous manifestations of SJS. He was treated with systemic steroids, antihistamines and topical calamine lotion and recovered after a few weeks.
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spelling pubmed-29516542011-01-11 Stevens - Johnson Syndrome Induced by Sodium Valproate Kumar, P.N. Suresh Kumar, S. Kishore Indian J Psychiatry Case Report A case of Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) following treatment with sodium valproate is presented. A 55-year-old male suffering from manic episode was treated with sodium valproate in addition to haloperidol and trihexiphenidyl. After two weeks he developed cutaneous manifestations of SJS. He was treated with systemic steroids, antihistamines and topical calamine lotion and recovered after a few weeks. Medknow Publications 2004 /pmc/articles/PMC2951654/ /pubmed/21224910 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Stevens - Johnson Syndrome Induced by Sodium Valproate
title Stevens - Johnson Syndrome Induced by Sodium Valproate
title_full Stevens - Johnson Syndrome Induced by Sodium Valproate
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title_short Stevens - Johnson Syndrome Induced by Sodium Valproate
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21224910
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