Toxic pustuloderma induced by ofloxacin

Acta Derm Venereol. 1993 Oct;73(5):382-4. doi: 10.2340/0001555573382384.

Abstract

A patient with drug-induced toxic pustuloderma is presented. The patient, who was asthmatic and who was being treated with ofloxacin for bronchitis and pharyngitis, developed intense erythemas followed by subcorneal pustulation associated with fever and a neutrophil leukocytosis. The diagnosis was confirmed by oral readministration of ofloxacin, with the result that pustular eruptions were induced. This form of drug eruption had not previously been attributed to ofloxacin.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bronchitis / drug therapy
  • Drug Eruptions / etiology*
  • Drug Eruptions / pathology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Ofloxacin / adverse effects*
  • Ofloxacin / therapeutic use
  • Pharyngitis / drug therapy
  • Skin / pathology
  • Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous / chemically induced*
  • Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous / pathology

Substances

  • Ofloxacin