Not all febrile critical illness with rash is infective: Drug reaction may be a mimic

We report a case of ciprofloxacin-related drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) which was initially diagnosed and managed on the line of tropical fever. Later, a diagnosis of definite case of DRESS was made according to the RegiSCAR scoring system and the patient was managed with...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Pannu, Ashok Kumar, Adarsh, M. B., Sharma, Navneet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5416792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28515609
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_397_16
_version_ 1783233822230315008
author Pannu, Ashok Kumar
Adarsh, M. B.
Sharma, Navneet
author_facet Pannu, Ashok Kumar
Adarsh, M. B.
Sharma, Navneet
author_sort Pannu, Ashok Kumar
collection PubMed
description We report a case of ciprofloxacin-related drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) which was initially diagnosed and managed on the line of tropical fever. Later, a diagnosis of definite case of DRESS was made according to the RegiSCAR scoring system and the patient was managed with the removal of ciprofloxacin along with steroids. DRESS is a great masquerader. The diagnosis should be highly suspected in the presence of fever, skin rash, liver involvement, and hypereosinophilia.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-5416792
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2017
publisher Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-54167922017-05-17 Not all febrile critical illness with rash is infective: Drug reaction may be a mimic Pannu, Ashok Kumar Adarsh, M. B. Sharma, Navneet Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report We report a case of ciprofloxacin-related drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) which was initially diagnosed and managed on the line of tropical fever. Later, a diagnosis of definite case of DRESS was made according to the RegiSCAR scoring system and the patient was managed with the removal of ciprofloxacin along with steroids. DRESS is a great masquerader. The diagnosis should be highly suspected in the presence of fever, skin rash, liver involvement, and hypereosinophilia. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5416792/ /pubmed/28515609 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_397_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Case Report
Pannu, Ashok Kumar
Adarsh, M. B.
Sharma, Navneet
Not all febrile critical illness with rash is infective: Drug reaction may be a mimic
title Not all febrile critical illness with rash is infective: Drug reaction may be a mimic
title_full Not all febrile critical illness with rash is infective: Drug reaction may be a mimic
title_fullStr Not all febrile critical illness with rash is infective: Drug reaction may be a mimic
title_full_unstemmed Not all febrile critical illness with rash is infective: Drug reaction may be a mimic
title_short Not all febrile critical illness with rash is infective: Drug reaction may be a mimic
title_sort not all febrile critical illness with rash is infective: drug reaction may be a mimic
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5416792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28515609
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_397_16
work_keys_str_mv AT pannuashokkumar notallfebrilecriticalillnesswithrashisinfectivedrugreactionmaybeamimic
AT adarshmb notallfebrilecriticalillnesswithrashisinfectivedrugreactionmaybeamimic
AT sharmanavneet notallfebrilecriticalillnesswithrashisinfectivedrugreactionmaybeamimic

Ejemplares similares