Clinical Profile of Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reactions in a Tertiary Care Centre
<div><p><strong><em>Context</em></strong><em>: C</em><em>utaneous adverse drug reactions (cADR) constitute 2-3% of all hospitalized patients. However there is paucity of data regarding occurrence of cADR among out patients. Hence we decided to do a study on clinical profile of cADR and to find out the common drugs resulting in cADR . </em></p><p><strong><em>Objective: </em></strong><em>To observe the clinical spectrum and the causative drugs of cADR among patients attending Dermatology Department in our hospital. </em></p><p><strong><em>Methods: </em></strong><em>Patients with cADR who attended Dermatology Out Patient Department (OPD) in our institution were studied for a period of one year.</em></p><p><strong><em>Results:</em></strong><em>71 patients were diagnosed to have cADR. Male to female ratio was 1.15 :1. Maculopapular rash (22/71 ; 31%) was the commonest presentation followed by generalised pruritus (16/71; 22.5%) , fixed drug eruption( FDE) ( 8/71 ;11.3%) and urticaria (5/71 ;7%). Antimicrobials (40.8%), NSAIDS (22.5%) and Antiepileptics (22.5 %) were the common drugs responsible for these eruptions.</em> </p></div>