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A fixed drug eruption is the term for a drug eruption that occurs in the same skin area every time the person is exposed to the drug. Eruptions can occur frequently with a certain drug (for example, with phenytoin [8]), or be very rare (for example, Sweet's syndrome following the administration of colony-stimulating factors [9]).
Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP; also known as pustular drug eruption and toxic pustuloderma) is a rare skin reaction that in 90% of cases is related to medication. AGEP is characterized by sudden skin eruptions that appear on average five days after a medication is started.
Fixed drug reactions are common and so named because they recur at the same site with each exposure to a particular medication. [1] Medications inducing fixed drug eruptions are usually those taken intermittently.
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They are T cell-initiated delayed hypersensitivity reactions occurring selectively in individuals who may be predisposed to do so because of the genetically-based types of human leukocyte antigens (i.e. HLA) or T-cell receptors they express; the efficiency with which they absorb, distribute to tissues, metabolize, and eliminate a drug or drug ...
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Drug eruptions are adverse drug reactions that present with cutaneous manifestations. [58] [59] [60] Acrodynia (calomel disease, erythredemic polyneuropathy, pink disease) Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (pustular drug eruption, toxic pustuloderma) Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis; Adverse reaction to biologic agents