Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis: risk factors, causality assessment and potential prevention strategies.

Expert Rev Clin Immunol

Department of Dermatology, Drug Hypersensitivity Clinical and Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taipei, Keelung, Taiwan.

Published: April 2020

The clinical manifestations of cutaneous adverse drug reactions are variable with different severity. Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are life-threatening severe cutaneous adverse reactions (SCARs) majorly caused by drugs and mediated by cytotoxic T cells. In this review, we focus on risk factors that contribute to the development of SJS/TEN and review the updated immune mechanism, preventive strategies as well as current therapeutic approaches for SJS/TEN. The progress of SJS/TEN researches reveals that cytotoxic T cells majorly activated by drug interacted with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and T cell receptors play an important role for the immune mechanism of SJS/TEN. Several clinical assessment tools and drug-T cells activation tests have been developed to identify the causality of SJS/TEN. New therapeutic approaches and biologics such as TNF-alpha antagonist have been conducted to improve the prognosis of SJS/TEN.

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