Background Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is one of potentially fatal disorders that often occur after taking certain types of medication. There are reports of this disease after some infections. This paper presents the case of a young boy with idiopathic Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Case Report A six-year-old male patient with complaint of fever and skin lesions was transferred to emergency depar...

background stevens-johnson syndrome (sjs) is one of potentially fatal disorders that often occur after taking certain types of medication. there are reports of this disease after some infections. this paper presents the case of a young boy with idiopathic stevens-johnson syndrome. case report a six-year-old male patient with complaint of fever and skin lesions was transferred to emergency depar...

Very rarely Stevens Johnson Syndrome develops following drug therapy particularly Lithium and Valproate. Worldwide, the reports regarding Lithium and Valproate induced Stevens Johnson Syndrome are very few. Here, we present two cases of Stevens Johnson Syndrome following treatment with Lithium and Valproate for Mood Disorder.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN) is a severe skin reaction most often triggered by particular medications. Although Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis were once thought to be separate conditions, they are now considered part of a continuum. Stevens-Johnson syndrome represents the less severe end of the disease spectrum, and toxic epidermal necro...

Two different cases of Stevens - Johnson syndrome are reported. We used intravenous immunoglobulin in their management and compared the results of treatment with the conventional lines of therapy in a historical control.

A 13-year-old boy was brought to the emergency department (ED) with a generalized itchy rash of 2 days' duration. For the past 3 days, he had dry, itchy eyes with a purulent discharge (Figure 1) and nonbilious emesis 2 or 3 times per day, with some blood streaks in the vomitus on the third day of illness. Chills developed on the third day, but the patient's temperature was not measured. His lip...

BACKGROUND It was proposed that Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis differed from erythema multiforme majus by the pattern and localization of skin lesions. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the validity of this clinical separation. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTINGS Active survey from 1989 to 1995 of 1800 hospital departments in Europe. PATIENTS A total of 552 patients and 172...

Figure 1. Anteroposterior view of the trunk with coa-lescing vesicobullous lesions.