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ABSTRACT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Drug related rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms syndrome can be a serious hypersensitivity reactions to antiepileptic drugs. We report a girl with a very rare drug related rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms syndrome associated with ethosuximide. Ethosuximide was introduced as therapy for absance epilepsy.<\/p>\n Clinical signs and symptoms of adverse drug reactions must be suspected in any patients who develop any unusual manifestation after taking any antiepileptic drugs. Early recognition of hypersensitivity reactions and immediately medication withdrawal is necessary to prevent serious disease and potentially fatal outcome.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ethosuximide (sucinamide) is considered as the \ufb01rst drug of choice, for treating absance seizures, in part, because it lacks the idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity of the alternative anti-absance drug, valproic acid. With ethosuximide there are described rare hematopoetic adverse e\ufb00ect (pancytopenia, agranulocytosis, leucopenia, eosinophilia) with or without bone marrow loss, and integumentary adverse as urticaria, systemic lupus erythematosus, Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Hirsutism and pruritic erythematous rashes are also described. Sook Jung Yun\u00a0described\u00a0<\/strong>drug-related rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms syndrome\u00a0(DRESS\u00a0<\/strong>syndrome)\u00a0<\/strong>due to valproate in a patient taking\u00a0ethosuximide\u00a0<\/strong>at the same time (1). Tadashi described a case of a 16-month male infant with Down syndrome in whom fever appeared 16 days after the start of administration of ethosuximide and then severe pneumonia developed with severe agranulocytosis and erythrocyte and thrombocyte within normal ranges (2).<\/p>\n Antiepileptic hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS) occurs after antiepileptic drug (AED) consumption, as rare, severe drug hypersensitivity reaction included in the drug-related \u00a0rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms syndrome (DRESS) (3,4). Usually AHS is caused by aromatic AED (phenitoin, carbamazepin or Phenobarbital) as well as by lamotrigin (5). Each of AED can cause AHS (6,7).<\/p>\n Clinical features of AHS include cutaneous reaction (mostly macula-papular rash, progreding to exfoliative dermatitis), facial edema, fever, lymphadenopathy,\u00a0and optional eosinophilia. Other organs (liver,\u00a0kidney, lung, hearth and central nervous system) can optionaly be involved. AHS has a good prognostic feature after excluding AED. DRESS syndrome has a high mortality \u00a0rate (5,8,9,10).<\/p>\n We report girl with severe DRESS syndrome caused by ethosuximide.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A six years and 8 months old girl was referred to Child and youth health care Institute of Vojvodina (Novi Sad, Serbia) with high fever, up to 40oC axillar, during three days, sore throat, \ufb01ne chest macular rash, and pneumonia. Kleromycin was introduced two days before. Ibuprofen was used. The fever continued, rash progressed in two days in exfoliative skin rash, cervical and inguinal lymhatenopahies, hepatosplenomegaly and nonpitting edema of the extremity appeared.<\/p>\n Laboratory workup showed anemia (Er 3×1012\/l, Hgb 96g\/l, HTC 28%), leucocytosis with mild eosinophylia (Le 12×109\/l, seg 38%, Ly 45%, monoc 4%, eoz\u00a012%), severe thrombocytopenia (TRC 30×109\/l) and elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (SE 50\/80). Chest X ray showed parahilar in\ufb01ltrate.<\/p>\n On suspicion of adverse drug reaction to kleromycin medication was stopped. Ibuprofen was also stopped and paracetamol was used. Ceftriaxon parenteral was introduced. Fever and rash progressed, with hepatosplenomegaly and moderate dyspnea. Girl denied oral intake. Parenteral hydration was introduced.<\/p>\n Medical history revealed that the girl\u00a0was due to absence seizures using Valproic acid 30mg\/kg\/day\u00a0divided in three doses for three months, and ethosuximide 25 mg\/kg\/day for 9 weeks. She was seizure free for 6 weeks. Ethosuximide was stopped. She got intravenous imunoglobulins 400 mg\/kg\/day during three days. She had a good response to the treatment. Fever and dyspnea disappeared in three days, rash in one week, and pulmonary \u00a0in\ufb01ltration in two weeks, and lymhadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly during six weeks. All symptoms had disappeared and hematological test were approaching normal levels at the six-week following up. Seizures appear two days after suxinuthin withdrawal. Clobazam 1,5 mg\/kg\/ day divided in three doses was introduced, but seizure control was not achieved. TTL test was negative to ethosuximide after 3 months. Patch test after 12 months was positive for ethosuximide.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Drug induced hypersensitivity usually refers to severe cutaneous \u00a0eruption, associated with systemic involvements and potential fatal outcome (11). Clinical presentations of AHS are highly variable and include Stevens-Johnson \u00a0syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, cutaneous eruption associated with fever, lymphadenopathy, and a severe form of AHS such as DRESS (12,13).<\/p>\n The clinical manifestation of our patient were completely compatible with DRESS syndrome. She respond to ethosuximide withdrawal and imunoglobuline threatment. Valproate therapy was continued, opposite to Conilleao, who described hypersensitivity syndrome in a 6-year-old Tunisian child treated for epileptic absences with sodium valproate and\u00a0 ethosuximide (14).<\/p>\n As clinical presentations of adverse AED reactions are highly variable, hypersensitivity must be considered not only with AED where we can expect it (carbamazepine, Phenobarbital, lamotrigin) but with use of al AED in any patient who develops any unusual manifestation. There are described AHS and DRESS syndrome in children caused by other AED (5). Stories about DRESS and AHS are usually similar. Our patient present very seldom described unexpected severe idiosincratic reaction caused with a wide used AED for childhood absance epilepsy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Correspondence to<\/strong>: <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ABSTRACT:\u00a0 Drug related rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms syndrome can be a serious hypersensitivity reactions to antiepileptic drugs. We report a girl with a very rare drug related rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms syndrome associated with ethosuximide. Ethosuximide was introduced as therapy for absance epilepsy. 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\nINTRODUCTION<\/h2>\n
CASE REPORT<\/h2>\n
DISCUSSION<\/h2>\n
BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/h2>\n
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\nKne\u017eevi\u0107-Pogan\u010dev Marija Child and Youth Health Care Institute of Vojvodina, Department for developmental neurology and epileptology, Novi Sad, Hajduk Veljkova 10, 21000, Serbia godipo@eunet.rs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n