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Persistent anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome responding to ciclosporin
K E Harman1, S D Morris, E M Higgins
1Department of Dermatology, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, UK. karen.harman@uhl-tr.nhs.uk
Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
|June 26, 2003
Abstract:
The drug hypersensitivity syndrome is a severe, multisystem reaction that typically develops within 2 months of starting a drug. We describe a case which has been unusually persistent, requiring prolonged treatment with systemic corticosteroids and after 1 year, ciclosporin. To the best of our knowledge, the use of ciclosporin for the treatment of the drug hypersensitivity syndrome has not been described previously.