Allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome

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Allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome typically occurs in persons with preexisting kidney failure.[1]: 119  Weeks to months after allopurinol is begun, the patient develops a morbilliform eruption[1]: 119  or, less commonly, develops one of the far more serious and potentially lethal severe cutaneous adverse reactions viz., the DRESS syndrome, Stevens Johnson syndrome, or toxic epidermal necrolysis.[2]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 James, William; Berger, Timothy; Elston, Dirk (2005). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology. (10th ed.). Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-2921-0 .



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