TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Aged
KW - Dapsone
KW - Drug Hypersensitivity
KW - Drug Therapy, Combination
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Leprostatic Agents
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Nepal
AU - Pandey B
AU - Shrestha K
AU - Lewis J
AU - Hawksworth R A
AU - Walker S L
AB - <p>Dapsone is a component of multi-drug therapy (MDT) for the treatment of all types of leprosy. It is known that dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome (DHS) complicates the treatment in a proportion of patients. We performed a retrospective study of patients commenced on MDT between 1990 and 2006; 2% developed DHS and 0.25% died due to DHS.</p>
BT - Tropical doctor
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17716505?dopt=Abstract
CN - PANDEY 2007
DA - 2007 Jul
DO - 10.1258/004947507781524700
IS - 3
J2 - Trop Doct
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Dapsone is a component of multi-drug therapy (MDT) for the treatment of all types of leprosy. It is known that dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome (DHS) complicates the treatment in a proportion of patients. We performed a retrospective study of patients commenced on MDT between 1990 and 2006; 2% developed DHS and 0.25% died due to DHS.</p>
PY - 2007
SP - 162
EP - 3
T2 - Tropical doctor
TI - Mortality due to dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome complicating multi-drug therapy for leprosy in Nepal.
UR - http://tdo.sagepub.com/content/37/3/162.full.pdf+html
VL - 37
SN - 0049-4755
ER -