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Reações cutâneas comuns a medicamento

Last reviewed: 27 Sep 2025
Last updated: 22 Nov 2024

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • história de exposição a medicamentos
  • lesões cutâneas
  • reações cutâneas variáveis em 5 a 15 minutos após a exposição ao medicamento
  • reações cutâneas variáveis dentro de algumas horas após a exposição ao medicamento
  • reações cutâneas variáveis dentro de 2 semanas após a exposição ao medicamento
  • reações cutâneas variáveis dentro de meses a anos após a exposição ao medicamento
  • exposição prévia e reação ao medicamento
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Other diagnostic factors

  • prurido
  • características não cutâneas associadas
  • dor
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Risk factors

  • infecções por vírus
  • Infecção pelo vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV)
  • polimorfismo HLA-B*5701
  • polimorfismo HLA-B*1502
  • polimorfismo HLA-B*5801
  • sexo feminino
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Diagnostic investigations

Investigations to consider

  • concentração de medicamentos no sangue (sangue total, plasma, soro)
  • concentração de triptase no soro (anafilaxia)
  • ensaio de via do complemento
  • histologia da biópsia das lesões
  • hemograma completo e diferencial
  • anticorpos anti-histona para ácido desoxirribonucleico (DNA) de fita simples (síndrome semelhante a lúpus)
  • testes cutâneos (testes de punção, intradérmicos, de contato)
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Emerging tests

  • imunoglobulina E (IgE) específica a medicamento
  • teste de ativação de basófilos
  • ensaio da proliferação linfocitária (EPL)
  • ensaio de immunospot ligado a enzimas (teste ELISPOT)

Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

reações cutâneas adversas graves

reações cutâneas adversas sem gravidade

ONGOING

após um episódio agudo

Contributors

Authors

Michael Ardern-Jones, BSc, MBBS, DPhil, FRCP

Associate Professor

Consultant Dermatologist

Faculty of Medicine

University of Southampton

Southampton

UK

Disclosures

MA-J declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Michael Ardern-Jones would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Wei Yann Haw, Dr Anne Holbrook, Dr Hermenio Lima, and Dr Jeffrey K. Aronson, the previous contributors to this topic.

Disclosures

WYH, AH and HL declare that they have no competing interests. JKA is editor of Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs and its annual companion volumes, the Side Effects of Drugs Annuals.

Peer reviewers

Shahbaz A. Janjua, MD

Specialist Dermatologist

Ayza Skin & Research Center

Lalamusa

Pakistan

Раскрытие информации

SAJ declares that he has no competing interests.

Craig K. Svensson, Pharm.D, PhD

Dean

College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences

Purdue University

West Lafayette

IN

Раскрытие информации

CKS declares that he has no competing interests.

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