ICD-11 classes
14 Diseases of the skin
Adverse cutaneous reactions to medication
Drug eruptions
EH65 — DRESS syndrome
ICD-11 EH65 — DRESS syndrome
DRESS syndrome (Drug Rash with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms) is a hypersensitivity reaction characterised by a generalised skin rash, fever, eosinophilia, lymphocytosis and visceral involvement (hepatitis, nephritis, pneumonitis, pericarditis and myocarditis) and, in some patients, reactivation of human herpes virus 6.
It includes 1 item.
- Drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Drug eruptions #3900