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Joseph A Schoenfeldt1, Michael A Howard1, Deeba Masood1
1From the Departments of Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery, and Allergy and Immunology, Northwestern University, Lake Forest, Illinois.
We report a case of a woman who experienced unexplained recurrent rashes of varying severity after multiple exposures to anesthesia, and then 2 successful surgeries under general anesthesia with no resultant rashes after removing propofol from her anesthetic plans. We infer her previous postanesthetic rashes were likely associated with drug-induced subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (DI-SCLE) triggered by propofol.
We report a case of a woman who experienced unexplained recurrent rashes of varying severity after multiple exposures to anesthesia, and then 2 successful surgeries under general anesthesia with no resultant rashes after removing propofol from her anesthetic plans. We infer her previous postanesthetic rashes were likely associated with drug-induced subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (DI-SCLE) triggered by propofol.
