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Fever and rash are common presenting complaints to the Emergency Department. This report documents an uncommon diagnosis involving this presentation. The patient presented with signs and symptoms consistent with severe sepsis. Once the diagnosis of Acute Generalized Exanthematous Pustulosis was
A striking cutaneous eruption developed in a fifty-eight year old woman with bipolar affective disorder three weeks after starting carbamazepine therapy. She had an infectious mononucleosis-like systemic illness associated with myriads of cutaneous micropustules, erythroderma and a high eosinophil
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Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) presents with an abrupt onset of widespread pustules on erythematous base and rapid spontaneous healing. AGEP may have a variety of causative factors such as drugs, viral infection and exposure to mercury. We report a case of AGEP in a 6-year-old boy
Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) is a rare, drug-related pustular eruption usually starting from folds with edema and erythema and with subsequent spreading. Clinically AGEP is characterized by the sudden appearance of dozen of sterile, non follicular, small pustules on erythematous
OBJECTIVE
Circumstantial evidence exists that certain neutrophilic inflammatory processes are regulated by T cells, but how this occurs is not well understood. The present review presents data on how T cells may directly orchestrate a neutrophilic inflammation by specific release of the
Praziquantel is widely used for treating parasitic infections globally, especially in countries with endemic schistosomiasis. However, severe hypersensitivity to praziquantel has rarely been reported. We report the case of a 30-year-old Japanese man who developed acute generalized exanthematous
Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) is a skin eruption, frequently drug induced and characterized by the acute development of multiple sterile minute pustules on an erythematous base. There is no case of fexofenadine-induced AGEP in literature (PubMed search). A 40-year-old female
BACKGROUND
We report a case of typical exanthematous pustulosis rash that was particularly severe both clinically and biologically. Laboratory tests led to the diagnosis of acute parvovirus B19 infection.
METHODS
A 23-year-old man with no past medical history developed fever with an erythematous
Background: Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) is a severe cutaneous adverse reaction characterized by sterile pustules on erythematous skin associated with fever and leukocytosis. The annual incidence of AGEP is estimated
BACKGROUND
Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) is an uncommon but severe dermatosis, characterized by acute occurrence of fever, and erythemato-oedematous rash, covered by sterile nonfollicular pustules. Most cases of AGEP have been described in association with the intake of
In the patient described here, norfloxacin induced a generalized erythematous subcorneal pustular drug eruption associated with photosensitivity and fever, proven by challenge. Any pustular eruption with fever should engender a careful search for a drug that may have caused this reaction.
An extensive range of diseases or reactions can cause pustular eruptions of the skin. Drug-provoked cutaneous eruptions includes acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) and acneiform eruption. We report a 50-year-old man who developed fever and a sudden eruption of widespread pustules 12
Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) is characterized by acute onset of a widespread pustular eruption in association with fever. It is usually seen as a medication reaction. We describe a 17-month-old boy with AGEP secondary to exposure to amoxicillin. This is an uncommon condition in
We report a case of pustular drug eruption due to bacampicilin hydrochloride which developed in a patient with pustular psoriasis. The patient was a 45-year-old Japanese woman with psoriasis which started as pustular psoriasis twenty years previously. In 1994, she developed generalized erythema with