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Severe Delayed Cutaneous and Systemic Reactions to Drugs: A Global Perspective on the Science and Art of Current Practice.
The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice - 1 Jan 2000
Peter Jonathan Grant, Lehloenya Rannakoe, Dlamini Sipho, Risma Kimberly, White Katie D, Konvinse Katherine C, Phillips Elizabeth J
Abstract excerpt
Most immune-mediated adverse drug reactions (IM-ADRs) involve the skin, and many have additional systemic features. Severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions (SCARs) are an uncommon, potentially life-threatening, and challenging subgroup of IM-ADRs with diverse clinical phenotypes, mechanisms, and offending drugs. T-cell-mediated immunopathology is central to these severe delayed reactions, but effector cells and...
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