Severe Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reactions at a Tertiary Care Center in Saudi Arabia

Table 3

Treatment of the different types of severe cutaneous adverse drug reaction.

	DRESS		SJS/TEN		AGEP
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Discontinue culprit medication	23	100	11	100	7	100
Symptomatic and supportive care	0	0	11	100	0	0
Topical corticosteroids	23	100	3	27.3	6	85.7
Systemic antihistamines	8	34.8	1	9.1	2	28.6
Systemic corticosteroids	18	78.3	4	36.4	2	28.6
Cyclosporine	0	0	2	18.2	0	0
Etanercept	0	0	1	9.1	0	0
IVIG	0	0	4	36.4	0	0

AGEP, acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis; DRESS, drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms; IVIG, intravenous immunoglobulin; SJS/TEN, Stevens–Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis.