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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
===ABCs of Drug Rashes=== | |||
*'''A'''cute generalized exanthemous pustulosis (AGEP) | |||
*'''B'''ullous disease, drug enduced | |||
*'''C'''aptopril (ACE-inhibitor) induced angioedema | |||
*'''D'''rug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome | |||
*'''S'''JS/TEN | |||
==Clinical Features== | ==Clinical Features== | ||
Revision as of 02:17, 5 February 2015
Background
ABCs of Drug Rashes
- Acute generalized exanthemous pustulosis (AGEP)
- Bullous disease, drug enduced
- Captopril (ACE-inhibitor) induced angioedema
- Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome
- SJS/TEN
Clinical Features
- sudden, usus morbilliform, often starts on face & trunk & spreads
Differential Diagnosis
Pediatric Rashes
Pediatric Rash
- Atopic dermatitis
- Bed bugs
- Contact dermatitis
- Drug rash
- Erythema infectiosum (Fifth disease)
- Hand-foot-and-mouth disease
- Henoch-schonlein purpura (HSP)
- Herpangina
- Herpes simplex virus (HSV)
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Meningitis
- Measles
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Roseola infantum
- Rubella (German measles)
- Scabies
- Scarlet fever
- Smallpox
- Varicella (Chickenpox)