Stevens - Johnson syndrome After Anti-Tubercular Therapy in a Patient with Tuberculosis of the Spine
Siddharth Shah
Journal of Critical Care & Emergency Medicine · 2023-03
Abstract
This case is of a 54-year-old female showing a rare and life-threatening steven johnson syndrome (Toxic epidermal necrolysis) as an adverse reaction after starting with Anti-tubercular therapy for tuberculosis of the spine (D8-D9). The patient developed a cutaneous reaction 10 days after starting treatment for Tuberculosis. The documentation of Steven Johnson syndrome after starting anti-tubercular drugs is sparse and Tuberculosis is a high-incidence and prevalence disease, the drugs used to treat the same are widely used.
MeSH terms
- Toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Medicine
- Tuberculosis
- Dermatology
- Incidence (geometry)
- Miliary tuberculosis
- Disease
- Surgery
- Pediatrics