Toxic epidermal necrolysis
Toxic epidermal necrolysis: Introduction
Toxic epidermal necrolysis: A skin condition causing widespread blisters to erupt over greater than 30% of the body.
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causes, and treatments of Toxic epidermal necrolysis is available below.
Symptoms of Toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Skin rash initially red spots that eventually join together
- Sheet-like loss of skin
- Large blisters
- Oozing red patches of skin
- Painful lesions on mucosal surfaces: lips, in mouth, in eyes and on genital and anal skin
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Treatments for Toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Identify and cease causative drug
- Admission to burns unit/intensive care unit
- Occlusive cutaneous dressings over wounds
- Systemic corticosteroids
- Immunoglobulins given intravenously
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Causes of Toxic epidermal necrolysis
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Medical Textbooks Online about Toxic epidermal necrolysis
Medical Books Excerpts
- Erythema Multiforme
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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Book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
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Prognosis for Toxic epidermal necrolysis
Prognosis for Toxic epidermal necrolysis:
usually rapid progression and death occurs in up to 40% of cases
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Definitions of Toxic epidermal necrolysis:
A skin and mucous membrane disease characterized by an eruption of macules, papules, nodules, vesicles, and/or bullae with characteristic "bull's-eye" lesions usually occurring on the dorsal aspect of the hands and forearms.
- (Source - Diseases Database)
Toxic epidermal necrolysis is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Toxic epidermal necrolysis, or a subtype of Toxic epidermal necrolysis,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Toxic epidermal necrolysis as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
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