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Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) Syndrome: When the Medication is the Cause!!!

1Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital, United States


American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2021, Vol. 9 No. 7, 375-377
DOI: 10.12691/ajmcr-9-7-9
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Nicola Jackson, Alain Morel, Alicia Pollard, Shion Betty, James Appiah-Pippim. Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) Syndrome: When the Medication is the Cause!!!. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2021; 9(7):375-377. doi: 10.12691/ajmcr-9-7-9.

Correspondence to: Nicola  Jackson, Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital, United States. Email: nicolanatashajackson@gmail.com

Abstract

Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome is an idiosyncratic, potentially life-threatening hypersensitivity reaction to therapeutic medication. [1] The most common culprits historically being anticonvulsants followed by antibiotics, but most recent publications are beginning to show the opposite trend. [1] This case describes a 58-year-old-woman who presented for evaluation of a generalized skin rash associated with facial edema 4 weeks after treatment for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia with empyema.

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