Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: UMLS:C0042109 (urticaria)
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Exanthematic eruptions, together with urticaria-angioedema syndrome and fixed drug eruption, are the most frequent cutaneous adverse drug reactions. Among the drug-induced exanthems (DIEs), erythematous maculopapular eruptions are the most common. Their management, especially when retrospective, is often not easy, and it is based on the use of clinical criteria, history, results of some laboratory tests, drug elimination test, skin tests, and oral challenge test. The superficial perivascular and spongiotic dermatitis, which is the prevalent histopathological features of DIEs, is not very useful in the differential diagnosis with virus- and bacteria-induced exanthems (VBIEs). On the contrary, some immune-histochemical findings (interleukin-5 overexpression, concomitant enhancement of perforin, interleukin-5, and granzyme B production, positivity for fatty acid synthase-ligand-L in amoxicillin-induced exanthems) seem to be more important. These data justifie the inclusion of DIEs in the subtypes IVb and IVc of delayed hypersensitivity reactions.
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PMID:Histopathological and immunohistochemical features of drug-induced exanthems. 2481 45