Toxic epidermal necrolysis in hemodialysis patient

Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is a rare and life-threatening allergic drug reaction. We report a 26-year-old young female with end-stage renal disease on maintenance hemodialysis developing TEN while on filgrastim and phenytoin. It was successfully treated with intravenous immunoglobulins and ste...

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Autores principales: Mateti, Uday Venkat, Nagaraju, Shankar Prasad, Bairy, Manohar, Attur, Ravindra Prabhu, Nagappa, Anantha Naik, Rao, Anuradha Calicut Kini
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4374200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25821763
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9175.152119
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Sumario:Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is a rare and life-threatening allergic drug reaction. We report a 26-year-old young female with end-stage renal disease on maintenance hemodialysis developing TEN while on filgrastim and phenytoin. It was successfully treated with intravenous immunoglobulins and steroids.

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