Serum sickness-like syndrome after immunoglobulin M-enriched polyclonal immunoglobulin

Azik F. M., Kanmaz G., İLERİ D. T.

Drug Metabolism and Drug Interactions, cilt.25, sa.1, ss.49-50, 2010 (Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2010
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1515/dmdi.2010.005
  • Dergi Adı: Drug Metabolism and Drug Interactions
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, PASCAL, Chemical Abstracts Core
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.49-50
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Immunoglobulin M-enriched polyclonal immunoglobulin, Immunosuppressed, Serum sickness, Serum sickness-like reaction
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Medication reactions, infectious etiologies, graft vs. host disease, serum sickness, and serum sickness-like reaction are the most common conditions that cause skin fever and rashes in immunosuppressed patients. In addition to this long list of diseases, severity of the primary disease and deterioration in the patient ' s health status can make the diagnosis difficult. Furthermore, cutaneous and histological similarities in these mentioned conditions can be confounding. Here, we present a 16-year-old male patient with acute myeloid leukemia suffering from skin rashes and fever that appeared following a chemotherapy course leading to bone marrow suppression. We aim to discuss the differential diagnosis and share the diagnostic challenges that we already have experienced after immunoglobulin M-enriched polyclonal immunoglobulin. © 2010 by Walter de Gruyter.