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Background: Adverse cutaneous drug reactions are unwarranted effects of modern medicine. These unfortunate events can assume any morphology from simple exanthem to full blown toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), and can simulate and mimic many diseases. Sometimes it is difficult to recognize the cause, but they may be due to polypharmacy or self-administration of medications. The analytical data f...

Background: Cutaneous drug reaction is a common side effect of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). In recent years, a significant increase in cases of cutaneous drug reaction due to AEDs and some changes in its pattern in our department have been noticed. Therefore, we carried out this study to present clinical and paraclinical characteristics of these cases. Methods: All records of patients who were h...

The clinical spectrum of cutaneous adverse drug reactions range from benign, self-limiting reactions to life-threatening conditions. Patients with severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions require longer hospitalisation that cost both the hospital and health care system. Cutaneous adverse drug reactions are common complications of medical therapy. While most are benign and self-limiting after wit...

Cutaneous drug reactions are the most frequently occurring adverse reactions to drugs. Among hospitalized patients, the incidence of these reactions ranges from 1 to 3%. The frequency of cutaneous reactions to specific drugs may exceed 10%. These reactions may range from mildly discomforting to those that are life-threatening. Anti-infective and anticonvulsant agents are among the drugs most co...

| August 2014 | 798 Finally, the authors detected a higher prevalence of more serious and life-threatening types of ACDR like Stevens Johnson and toxic epidermal necrolysis in their study. This finding is so important and may be due to the difference in type and potency of metabolic pathways in Iranian patients due to their ethnic groups, or it may be due to not including the above mentioned ri...