| Journal: | The brazilian journal of infectious diseases |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000290931 |
| ISSN: | 1413-8670 |
| Authors: | AlvesRodrigues, Edson Nogueira1 Ribeiro, Luciano Correa Silva, Margareth Dioz Takiuchi, Arley Fontes, Cor Jesus Fernandes2 |
| Institutions: | 1Hospital Julio Müller, Centro de Doenças Infecciosas e Pesquisa em Doenças Tropicais, Cuiaba, Mato Grosso. Brasil 2Hospital Julio Müller, Departamento de Clinicas Medicas, Cuiaba, Mato Grosso. Brasil |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Season: | Feb |
| Volumen: | 9 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Pages: | 84-86 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Nota breve o noticia |
| Approach: | Caso clínico |
| English abstract | Dapsone syndrome is a rare hypersensitivity reaction to dapsone and is characterized by high fever, papular or exfoliative dermatitis, progressing to liver toxicity and generalized lymphadenopathy, resembling a mononucleosis infection. We report a patient who developed acute renal failure, as well as other complications characteristic of dapsone syndrome, during leprosy treatment. Renal involvement had not been previously described as a dapsone syndrome feature |
| Disciplines: | Biología, Medicina |
| Keyword: | Bacterias, Fisiología humana, Nefrología, Lepra, Síndrome de Dapsone, Insuficiencia renal aguda (IRA), Hepatotoxicidad |
| Keyword: | Biology, Medicine, Bacteria, Human physiology, Nephrology, Leprosy, Dapsone syndrome, Acute renal failure (ARF), Hepatotoxicity |
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