[Rash, fever, eosinophilia and elevated liver enzymes. DRESS syndrome (drug reaction or rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms)].

Authors
Category Primary study
JournalPraxis
Year 2010
We report on a patient with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia who developed fever, rash, eosinophilia and hepatitis 10 days after initiation of a therapy with sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim. A DRESS syndrome was diagnosed and the therapy was changed successfully to pyrimethamine and dapsone. We describe the clinical picture, causative drugs, pathogenesis, differential diagnoses and therapy of this life-threatening disease to acquaint the general practitioner with it.
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