Mayumi Ueta, Chikara Inoue, Mitsuko Nakata, Chie Sotozono, Mee Kum Kim, Tais Wakamatsu, Passara Jongkhajornpong, Hajirah Saeed, Saaeha Rauz, David Hui-Kang Ma, Kyung Chul Yoon, Vilavun Puangsricharern, Charles Bouchard, Sajjad Ahmad, Kyoung Yul Seo, Choun-Ki Joo, Jose Alvaro Pereira Gomes, James Chodosh, Shigeru Kinoshita, Satoshi Teramukai
We formed an international research collaboration that included Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Thailand, Taiwan, the UK, and the US (682 patients from 13 hospitals between 2005 and 2020), to better evaluate the role of race, ethnicity, and other risk factors in the pathophysiology of Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN). Ophthalmologists often see SJS/TEN patients with severe ocular complications (SOC; frequency 50% SJS/TEN patients) when the patients are referred to them in the chronic stage after the acute stage has passed...
2023: Frontiers in Medicine