We present the clinical case of a 8-years-old boy suffering a fixed drug reaction attributed to the oral intake of loratadine. He is an atopic child with perennial rhinitis and asthma and marked hypersensitivity to the house-dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus who is receiving inhaled corticosteroids and b2-agonists ad libitum plus specific immunotherapy with the mite. When the boy receive...

Drug eruptions are among the most common cutaneous disorders encountered by dermatologists. They occur in many forms and mimic many dermatoses. Fixed Drug Eruption (FDE) has its own characteristics and may be associated with ingestion of a number of agents. The incidence of FDE induced by a specific drug depends on the frequency with which the agent is used in a given part of the world. Recentl...

We report the case of a 65-yr-old woman undergoing bronchoscopy for a lobular lesion who received thiopentone to induce anaesthesia that was maintained with sufentanil, vecuronium and isoflurane. She tolerated the procedure well initially, but developed eruptions about her face and fingers within 24 hr of anaesthesia. Treatment with flucinonide cream (0.05%) resolved the eruptions with no lasti...

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Vol. 27, No. 4, 2015 465 Received July 7, 2014, Revised August 20, 2014, Accepted for publication September 1, 2014 Corresponding author: Joo Yeon Ko, Department of Dermatology, Hanyang University College of Medicine, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2290-8441, Fax: 82-2-22919619, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the ...

Fixed drug eruption is an uncommon adverse drug reaction caused by delayed cell-mediated hypersensitivity. Levocetirizine is an active (R)-enatiomer of cetirizine and there have been a few reports of fixed drug eruption related to these antihistamines. We experienced a case of levocetirizine-induced fixed drug eruption and cross-reaction with other piperazine derivatives confirmed by patch test...

A 69-year-old male presented with several painful erythematous patches on both palms and trunk several days after receiving iopromide (Ultravist®, Shering, Berlin, Germany). A fixed drug eruption (FDE) due to iopromide was suspected clinically. However, at that time, the patch test with iopromide at the lesion site gave negative results. Three years later, the patient was mistakenly administere...