Treatment of refractory IgA vasculitis with dapsone: a systematic review [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics, 2020 IgA vasculitis, formerly known as Henoch-Schönlein purpura, is a systemic IgA-mediated vasculitis of the small vessels commonly seen in children. The natural history of IgA vasculitis is generally self-limiting; however, one-third of patients experience ...
Keum Hwa Lee +11 more
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Randomized trial of artesunate+amodiaquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine+amodiaquine, chlorproguanal-dapsone and SP for malaria in pregnancy in Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2009 BACKGROUND: Malaria in pregnancy is serious, and drug resistance in Africa is spreading. Drugs have greater risks in pregnancy and determining the safety and efficacy of drugs in pregnancy is therefore a priority.
Greenwood, Brian M +24 more
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DAPSONE HYPERSENSITIVITY SYNDROME - A CASE REPORT AT TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL [PDF]
, 2022 Dapsone a sulfonamide drug used mainly in the treatment of Leprosy and various other several bacterial infections. Rarely Dapsone can lead to hypersensitive reaction characterised by fever, yellowish sclera and other systems involved. We report a 17 year
Sailajapriyadarsini Parlapalli , Sekhar Babu Bandar +1 more
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Clinical outcomes of adverse cardiovascular events in patients with acute dapsone poisoning [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2016 Objective Adverse cardiovascular events (ACVEs) account for a large proportion of the morbidities and mortalities associated with drug overdose emergencies. However, there are no published reports regarding outcomes of ACVEs associated with acute dapsone
Kyung Sik Kang +7 more
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Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine, 2022 Dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome (DHS) is characterized by fever, skin rash, eosinophilia, lymphadenopathy, and multi systemic manifestations following Dapsone therapy [1].
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Dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome-rare complication of dapsone therapy [PDF]
, 2017 Among several other adverse effects of dapsone therapy, dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome is extremely rare but most life-threatening complication.
Parvaiz A. Shah +7 more
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DAPSONE HYPERSENSITIVITY SYNDROME: A COMPLICATION OF DAPSONE THERAPY [PDF]
, 2021 Dapsone is chemically sulfonamide with its leprostatic mechanism used in the treatment of Hansen’s disease. It is one of the safest drugs in leprosy patients.
GUNTURU, LAKSHMI NARASIMHA +3 more
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Dapsone induced hypersensitivity syndrome: a case report [PDF]
, 2020 Dapsone is an anti-leprotic drug. It may cause a severe adverse effect known as dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome which involves fever, chills, rash, and internal organ involvement.
Suhagiya, Priyanka, Kolli, Sarika
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Inhibition of Dapsone-Induced Methaemoglobinaemia by Cimetidine in the Rat During Chronic Dapsone Administration [PDF]
, 1991 Dapsone undergoes N-acetylation to monoacetyl dapsone as well as N-hydroxylation to a hydroxylamine which is responsible for the haemotoxicity (i.e. methaemoglobinaemia; Met Hb) of the drug. Since dapsone is always given chronically, we have investigated
M D Coleman, B K Park, M D Tingle
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Dapsone syndrome with acute renal failure during leprosy treatment: case report
Brazilian Journal of Infectious DiseasesDapsone syndrome is a rare hypersensitivity reaction to dapsone and is characterized by high fever, papular or exfoliative dermatitis, progressing to liver toxicity and generalized lymphadenopathy, resembling a mononucleosis infection.
Edson Nogueira Alves-Rodrigues +4 more
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