Phenobarbital induced Stevens–Johnson syndrome in a child

Phenobarbital, an antiepileptic agent has numerous adverse reactions including Stevens– Johnson syndrome (SJS), a rare medical emergency. A 12-year-old male epileptic child with phenobarbital-induced SJS was referred for the management of severe pain in relation to extensively decayed molar tooth an...

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Autores principales: Gaur, Sumit, Agnihotri, Rupali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Drug Watch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23087523
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.99344
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description Phenobarbital, an antiepileptic agent has numerous adverse reactions including Stevens– Johnson syndrome (SJS), a rare medical emergency. A 12-year-old male epileptic child with phenobarbital-induced SJS was referred for the management of severe pain in relation to extensively decayed molar tooth and oral mucosal ulcerations. The patient was managed by withdrawal of phenobarbital and palliative treatment of the lesions.
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spelling pubmed-34699652012-10-19 Phenobarbital induced Stevens–Johnson syndrome in a child Gaur, Sumit Agnihotri, Rupali Indian J Pharmacol Drug Watch Phenobarbital, an antiepileptic agent has numerous adverse reactions including Stevens– Johnson syndrome (SJS), a rare medical emergency. A 12-year-old male epileptic child with phenobarbital-induced SJS was referred for the management of severe pain in relation to extensively decayed molar tooth and oral mucosal ulcerations. The patient was managed by withdrawal of phenobarbital and palliative treatment of the lesions. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3469965/ /pubmed/23087523 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.99344 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Pharmacology 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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