• Priyansh Jain, Sneha Garg, Vinod Kumar Sharma, and Sanjiv Maheshwari.
• Resident,Department of Medicine, JLN Medical College, Ajmer, Rajasthan.
• J Assoc Physicians India. 2019 Apr 1; 67 (4): 87-88.

AbstractCarbamazepine was and still used extensively in clinical practice in varied indications can cause adverse drug reaction shaving diverse clinical manifestations of variable severity. "Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms" (DRESS) syndrome is a severe, potentially life-threatening, acute adverse drug reactions, typically characterized by a long latency period from drug exposure. DRESS syndrome is characterized by the presence of fever, coetaneous eruptions, lymphadenopathy, internal organ involvement (such as hepatitis, carditis, interstitial nephritis, interstitial pneumonitis, etc.) and haematological abnormalities, mainly leucocytosis, eosinophilia and sometimes atypical lymphocytosis. We report a clinical case of DRESS syndrome with liver injury, evaluated with the RegiSCAR scoring system as a "definite case" possibly induced by carbamazepine in a patient.© Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 2011.

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