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Article: Know the major offenders responsible for drug reactions.(Dermatology)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- September 15, 2007
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PALM BEACH, FLA. -- Although more than 700 drugs can cause skin eruptions, physicians should be familiar with the most likely culprits and how to manage the adverse reactions they can cause.
"We don't like to talk about the bad things that can happen, but adverse reactions can occur and they are common," Dr. James Q. Del Rosso said at the annual meeting of the Florida Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery.
Drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome, serum sickness-like reactions, and drug-induced lupus reactions can be caused by agents that are likely to be prescribed. Some of these drug reactions have skin ...