DRESS syndrome differential diagnosis
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Yazan Daaboul, M.D.; Serge Korjian M.D.
Overview
DRESS syndrome must be differentiated from other diseases that cause fever, rash, and visceral involvement, such as exanthematous pustulosis, psoriasis, Still's disease, toxic epidermal necrolysis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, lymphoma, serum sickness, drug-induced liver injury, and Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome.
Differential Diagnosis
Differential diagnoses of DRESS syndrome include the following:
- Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis
- Angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Cholecystitis
- Dermatitis
- Drug-induced liver injury
- Drug-induced nephrotoxicity
- Gilbert syndrome
- Hypereosinophilic syndrome
- Kawasaki disease
- Lymphoma
- Psoriasis
- Serum sickness
- Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome
- Still's disease
- Toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Vasculitis
- Viral exanthem
- Viral hepatitis