J. Roujeau

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Risk factors for acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP)—results of a multinational case–control study (EuroSCAR)
Background  Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) is a disease characterized by the rapid occurrence of many sterile, nonfollicular pustules usually arising on an oedematous erythema… Expand
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A marker for Stevens-Johnson syndrome …: ethnicity matters
Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are rare but severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions, which can be caused by a certain number of specific drugs among which is… Expand
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Toxic epidermal necrolysis: effector cells are drug-specific cytotoxic T cells.
BACKGROUND Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is a very rare but extremely severe drug reaction characterized by widespread apoptosis of epidermis with extensive blisters. We previously found… Expand
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Clinical heterogeneity of drug hypersensitivity.
Skin is the most frequent target of drug reactions that are reported, may be because they are easily detected. Most (probably more than 90%) are related to drug hypersensitivity, i.e. an individually… Expand
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Treatment of severe drug reactions: Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis and hypersensitivity syndrome.
Severe skin adverse drug reactions can result in death. Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) has the highest mortality (30-35%); Stevens-Johnson syndrome and transitional forms correspond to the same… Expand
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Allopurinol is the most common cause of Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis in Europe and Israel.
BACKGROUND Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are rare severe cutaneous adverse reactions. OBJECTIVES We sought to update knowledge on the causes of SJS or TEN with… Expand
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[Toxic epidermal necrolysis and Stevens-Johnson syndrome].
  • J. Roujeau
  • Medicine
  • La Revue du praticien
  • 15 June 2007
Epidermal necrolysis (Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis) is an acute and severe skin disease, induced by "(drug allergy" and characterized by the destruction of the epithelium of… Expand
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A comparison of oral and topical corticosteroids in patients with bullous pemphigoid.
BACKGROUND Bullous pemphigoid is the most common autoimmune blistering skin disease of the elderly. Because elderly people have low tolerance for standard regimens of oral corticosteroids, we studied… Expand
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Correlations between clinical patterns and causes of erythema multiforme majus, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, and toxic epidermal necrolysis: results of an international prospective study.
BACKGROUND It was proposed that Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis differed from erythema multiforme majus by the pattern and localization of skin lesions. OBJECTIVE To… Expand
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Drug specific cytotoxic T-cells in the skin lesions of a patient with toxic epidermal necrolysis.
Toxic epidermal necrolysis is an extremely severe drug reaction, manifesting itself by widespread apoptosis of keratinocytes, generally considered to result from Fas/CD95-FasLigand interaction, but… Expand
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