@article{6697,
  keywords = {Acute Kidney Injury, Adult, Clofazimine, Dapsone, Drug Hypersensitivity, Drug Therapy, Combination, Female, Humans, Leprostatic Agents, leprosy, Rifampin, Syndrome},
  author = {Alves-Rodrigues EN and Ribeiro LC and Silva MD and Takiuchi A and Fontes CJF},
  title = {Dapsone syndrome with acute renal failure during leprosy treatment: case report.},
  abstract = {<p>Dapsone 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. We report a patient who developed acute renal failure, as well as other complications characteristic of dapsone syndrome, during leprosy treatment. Renal involvement had not been previously described as a dapsone syndrome feature.</p>},
  year = {2005},
  journal = {The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases},
  volume = {9},
  pages = {84-6},
  month = {2005 Feb},
  issn = {1413-8670},
  doi = {10.1590/s1413-86702005000100014},
  language = {eng},
}