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Introduction: Stevens- Johnson (SJS) and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN) are considered to be the same diseases but of different severities across a spectrum; they are severe drug reactions characterized by a progressive involvement of skin and mucous membranes, caused by alterations in the immune response. Despite multiples advances in knowledge of the physiopathology of this disease, to date there is no pharmacological treatment with enough clinical evidence to be called a standard treatment. Glucocorticosteroids are one of the treatments used for SJS and TEN with different results among the published literature.This paper pretends to describe our experience with high dose of glucocorticosteroids for the treatment of SJS and TEN. Methods: We performed a retrospective review of all medical charts of patients with diagnosis of SJS or TEN hospitalized in our clinic, between January 1 of 2006 and May 31 of 2010. Clinical information, epidemiological data and laboratory tests were analyzed. Patients younger than 18 years or with more than 10 days of evolution previous to the admission were excluded. Results: Seven patients were included, with an average age of 44 years (27 - 57 years), five were woman, six cases had diagnoses of SJS and one of TEN. 5 patients had a generalized skin disease and 1 patient had only mucous membranes involvement. Corticosteroids were initiated in average 4,4 days after the onset of symptoms, with an average in the duration of treatment of 3,7 days (3 to 5 days), and an average of 10,2 days of hospitalization (4 to 19 days). Side effects were mild hypokalemia in 6 of the 7 patients, 1 patient presented bradycardia and hyperglycemia at the third day of treatment with methylprednisolone. Two patients had sepsis without isolation of any microorganism; one of the patients with sepsis required a longer hospitalization. Conclusion: In our series, the use of high dose of corticosteroids was associated with a prompt clearance of lesions; mild hypokalemia was the most frequent side effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at showing the strategy and the results of pharmacosurveillance at Finlay Institute, as owner of sanitary medical registries. The biography of products was consolidated in post-marketing stage and risk/benefit balance was examined. In our case, the spontaneous notification of adverse events and the compliance with good practices and rules/regulations of the regulatory authority was possible due to agreements with institutions that allowed the access to digital and auditable data bases. Data-mining search of the grouping of rare and unexpected events for a same lot or accidents, the preparation of periodic safety reports and the systematic practice to fill requested information on subpopulations and special groups, allowed updating the safety profile of vaccines. It was confirmed that the frequency of adverse events of trivalent Leptospirosis vaccine, the typhoid Vi vaccine and tetanus toxoid, was lower than 0.1 report per every 100 000 vaccinees, while the other vaccines showed values from 0.1 to 1 per 100 000 vaccinees. From 80% to 95% of the notifications were causally related to the vaccine, and only 0.89% was of serious severity, almost all of it in children younger than one year. General manifestations were predominant. Results showed the pertinence of industry pharmacosurveillance to obtain valuable safety information on vaccine administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bupropion is a monocyclic aminoketone introduced into Spain for the treatment of depression with the ex- tended release (XL) formulation that makes it possible to administer it in a single daily dose. It is metabolized in its principal active metabolite, the hydroxybupropion (OH-BUP) by the cytochrome P450 2B6 (CYP2B6), with a mean elimination half life of about 20 h. It is a norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitor with an almost null effect on the serotonin transporter. It has low (12%-35%) but persistent occupancy of the striatal dopamine transporter. It has no clinically significant effects on the histaminergic, muscarinic, alpha-adrenergic or domaminergic receptors. Its principal interactions are related with inhibition or induction of CYP2B6, responsible for the bupropion metabolism, or inhibition of CYP2D6 by bupropion. It should be used carefully together with drugs that decrease the seizure threshold. This is contraindicated during sudden suppression of alcohol or sedatives and during treatment with monoaminooxidade inhibitors. The present paper answers frequent questions posed during the clinical use of bupropion, especially under special clinical situations or during treatment with other common drugs. These situations include, among others, combined use of anti-seizure drugs, antipsychotics in psychotic depression, corticosteroids, antidiabetics, other antidepressants such as venlafaxin, oral contraceptives, hormone replacement hormone therapy, disulfiram, alcohol or abuse drugs and varenicline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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