Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis: 11-year Demographic Clinical and Prognostic Characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are acute, life-threatening, severe drug reactions. Randomized studies on these diseases are difficult to perform.

Aims and objectives

The purpose of this study was to summarize the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with SJS and TEN in a tertiary hospital in Turkey.

Materials and methods

We evaluated the records of 33 patients with SJS and TEN who were followed in our clinic or examined between January 2008 and June 2019, retrospectively. Age, sex, time of admission to hospital, causative drug, presence of concomitant disease, skin findings, mucosal involvement, the severity-of-illness score for TEN, the medication used, antibiotic use, transfer to intensive care, develop

SUBMITTER: Acar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9154133 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature