Mucosal fixed drug eruption in a patient treated with ornidazole

Multifocal fixed drug eruption due to ornidazole

Case report A 40-year old woman applied to the Immunology and Allergy clinic with pruritic erythematous lesions over the lateral sides of both arms and right hip within 30 minutes after the ingestion of ornizadole 500 mg tablet. She reported that five recurrent reactions emerged with the same drug on the same locations previously, and their severity was increased consecutively. She was prescrib...

Mucosal fixed drug eruption.

Fixed Drug Eruption Due to Ornidazole - A Case Report

Fixed Drug Eruption (FDE) is classified as cutaneous drug reaction which recurs in the same locations upon systemic administration of the same drug. Vesicles and bullae may sometimes be found, and in some cases even these are confused with Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS) or Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN). A male patient, 62 years old, developed FDE with the use of ornidazole. On physical exami...

Non-pigmenting cutaneous-mucosal fixed drug eruption due to piroxicam.

BACKGROUND Piroxicam is a widely used anti-inflammatory drug. Most adverse reactions affect gastrointestinal system, liver and skin. Fixed drug eruption although very unusual, has also been described, but with cutaneous involvement exclusively. We present the case of a 49-year-old man who suffered three episodes of fixed drug eruption with cutaneous-mucosal involvement, even simulating an autoi...

Fixed drug eruption: A descriptive study of 100 cases

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