CASE REPORT
Year : 2011 | Volume
: 56 | Issue : 6 | Page : 763--765
Dress syndrome with sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome and pneumomediastinum
Prabhas Prasun Giri1, Swapan Roy1, Sukanta Bhattyacharya1, Priyankar Pal1, Sandipan Dhar2
1 Department of Pediatric Medicine, Institute of Child Health, Kolkata, India
2 Department of Pediatric Dermatology, Institute of Child Health, Kolkata, India
Correspondence Address:
Prabhas Prasun Giri
C-1, Anandan, 173, Sarat Ghosh Garden Road, Dhakuria, Kolkata-31
India
Drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome reflects a serious hypersensitivity reaction to drugs, and is characterized by skin rash, fever, lymph node enlargement, and internal organ involvement. So far, numerous drugs such as sulfonamides, phenobarbital, sulfasalazine, carbamazepine, and phenytoin have been reported to cause DRESS syndrome. We report a case of a 10-year-old girl who developed clinical manifestations of fever, rash, lymphadenopathy, hypereosinophilia, and visceral involvement (hepatitis and pneumonitis) after taking phenobarbital for seizures, with subsequent development of sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and spontaneous air leak syndrome (pnemothorax and pneumomediastinum). She was put on steroids and various antibiotics and was ventilated, but ultimately succumbed to sepsis and pulmonary complications.
How to cite this article:
Giri PP, Roy S, Bhattyacharya S, Pal P, Dhar S. Dress syndrome with sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome and pneumomediastinum.Indian J Dermatol 2011;56:763-765
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Giri PP, Roy S, Bhattyacharya S, Pal P, Dhar S. Dress syndrome with sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome and pneumomediastinum. Indian J Dermatol [serial online] 2011 [cited 2013 May 24 ];56:763-765
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