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The Uncertainty Persists but the Fog Is Dispersing

Arch Dermatol. 2003;139:85-86.

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THERAPEUTIC STUDIES in toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), a rare but dramatic and life-threatening disease, have recently drawn a considerable amount of attention. Despite (or perhaps due to) the fact that a variety of possible therapeutic modalities have been proposed, usually based on a symptomatic approach and tried in single patients or small series, still no proven and widely accepted treatment regimen exists.

The development of a generally accepted treatment strategy has been hampered by the fact that the condition is part of a larger spectrum of reactive inflammatory skin diseases and thus heterogeneous; that it is rare and life threatening and thus precludes placebo-controlled studies; and that our knowledge on the pathogenic mechanisms involved are still only fragmentary.

Following the observation that antibodies present in pooled purified human immunoglobulin blocks Fas-mediated keratinocyte apoptosis in vitro,¹ high-dose intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) have been introduced into the treatment of TEN in 1998. In . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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