We describe a patient with Stevens-Johnson syndrome (erythema multiforme major) associated with an increase in glipizide dosage administration. Glipizide is a second-generation sulfonylurea commonly ...
Most cases of SJS are probably a cell-mediated hypersensitivity reaction; in some cases monocytes and macrophages are present and auto-antibodies may be pathogenic. SJS is characterized by skin ...
When Brent Chapman was 13, he took ibuprofen during a Christmas basketball game. It was a drug he had taken before, but what happened next was anything but routine: He had a severe reaction that ...