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Stevens-Johnson syndrome and abuse of anabolic steroids
Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is characterized by mucocutaneous tenderness and typical hemorrhagic erosions, erythema and epidermal detachment presenting as blisters and areas of denuded skin. SJS is often observed after drug use as well as after bacterial or viral infections. Several drugs are at...
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The Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5342976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28280713 http://dx.doi.org/10.5125/jkaoms.2017.43.1.57 |
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author | Cocca, Serena Viviano, Massimo |
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description | Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is characterized by mucocutaneous tenderness and typical hemorrhagic erosions, erythema and epidermal detachment presenting as blisters and areas of denuded skin. SJS is often observed after drug use as well as after bacterial or viral infections. Several drugs are at high risk of inducing SJS, but there are no cases in the English literature regarding anabolic steroid use triggering SJS. In our paper, we describe a case in which use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) was associated with SJS. The patient participated in competitive body-building and regularly took variable doses of AAS. Initial symptoms (headache, weakness, pharyngodynia, and fever) were ignored. After a week he presented to the Emergency Department with a burning sensation on the mouth, lips, and eyes. Painful, erythematous, maculopapular, and vesicular lesions appeared all over the body, including on the genitals. During hospitalization, he also developed a cardiac complication. The patient had not taken any drugs except AAS. |
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spelling | pubmed-53429762017-03-09 Stevens-Johnson syndrome and abuse of anabolic steroids Cocca, Serena Viviano, Massimo J Korean Assoc Oral Maxillofac Surg Special Articles Associated with Complications Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is characterized by mucocutaneous tenderness and typical hemorrhagic erosions, erythema and epidermal detachment presenting as blisters and areas of denuded skin. SJS is often observed after drug use as well as after bacterial or viral infections. Several drugs are at high risk of inducing SJS, but there are no cases in the English literature regarding anabolic steroid use triggering SJS. In our paper, we describe a case in which use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) was associated with SJS. The patient participated in competitive body-building and regularly took variable doses of AAS. Initial symptoms (headache, weakness, pharyngodynia, and fever) were ignored. After a week he presented to the Emergency Department with a burning sensation on the mouth, lips, and eyes. Painful, erythematous, maculopapular, and vesicular lesions appeared all over the body, including on the genitals. During hospitalization, he also developed a cardiac complication. The patient had not taken any drugs except AAS. The Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 2017-02 2017-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5342976/ /pubmed/28280713 http://dx.doi.org/10.5125/jkaoms.2017.43.1.57 Text en Copyright © 2017 The Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Special Articles Associated with Complications Cocca, Serena Viviano, Massimo Stevens-Johnson syndrome and abuse of anabolic steroids |
title | Stevens-Johnson syndrome and abuse of anabolic steroids |
title_full | Stevens-Johnson syndrome and abuse of anabolic steroids |
title_fullStr | Stevens-Johnson syndrome and abuse of anabolic steroids |
title_full_unstemmed | Stevens-Johnson syndrome and abuse of anabolic steroids |
title_short | Stevens-Johnson syndrome and abuse of anabolic steroids |
title_sort | stevens-johnson syndrome and abuse of anabolic steroids |
topic | Special Articles Associated with Complications |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5342976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28280713 http://dx.doi.org/10.5125/jkaoms.2017.43.1.57 |
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