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DRESS Syndrome Research Paper

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DİSCUSSİON Dress syndrome was diagnosed because after Trimebutin maleate use was seen fever, skin rash, high transaminase values and eosinophilia detected in the peripheral blood smear. DRESS syndrome is an acute, severe and life-threatening disease with a mortality rate of about 10%, which is frequently associated with systemic organ involvement involving liver dysfunction, renal impairment and interstitial pneumonitis. It is not clear incidence of DRESS syndrome known as hypersensitivity reactions. More than 50 drugs that caused the notification is made DRESS syndrome. DRESS syndrome is more common in adults and rarely seen in children. Aromatic anticonvulsants, allopurinol, and sulfonamides are the main drugs that cause the most common. Anticonvulsants and sulfonamides for the drug that causes frequent 1000-10000 drug exposure is estimated that developed DRESS syndrome (1.13). Fever, rash, lymphadenopathy and internal organ involvement with progresses and accompanied by eosinophilia. Liver, lymph nodes and internal organs, the kidneys are the most common involvement, respectively. Heart and lung involvement, but it may also occur to a lesser …show more content…

The use of antihistamines is recommended almost for the treatment Dressler's syndrome. Patients with internal organ involvement are recommended use of systemic corticosteroids and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), but are still insufficient number of studies on this issue(10). Trimebutin Maleate treatment was stopped firstly in our patient. Antihistamines began and methylprednisolone added to treatment for liver involvement. Clinical and laboratory findings regressed without IVIG therapy. In some publications, hyperbaric oxygen, N-acetylcysteine, pentoxifylline, levamisole, plasmapheresis treatment has been reported. However, the benefits of these agents are not conclusive

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