Abstract
Lamotrigine (LTG), an aromatic antiepileptic drug, is mainly used to manage epilepsy and bipolar / mood disorders. Skin rashes are the most common adverse reaction to this drug that typically develop in the first 8 weeks of treatment.
Highlights
Lamotrigine (LTG), an aromatic antiepileptic drug, is mainly used to manage epilepsy and bipolar / mood disorders
Maculopapular eruption and fever due to lamotrigine followed by subsiding flare-ups
Case presentation A 27-year-old Caucasian woman treated with LTG 25 mg PO for a depressive episode was hospitalized in our allergy clinic with highly pruritic maculopapular eruption (MPE), affecting her abdomen, chest, back and forearms, which had started 2 days earlier along with fever of 37.5oC
Summary
Lamotrigine (LTG), an aromatic antiepileptic drug, is mainly used to manage epilepsy and bipolar / mood disorders. Maculopapular eruption and fever due to lamotrigine followed by subsiding flare-ups From EAACI Skin Allergy Meeting 2014 Krakow, Poland. Introduction Lamotrigine (LTG), an aromatic antiepileptic drug, is mainly used to manage epilepsy and bipolar / mood disorders. Skin rashes are the most common adverse reaction to this drug that typically develop in the first 8 weeks of treatment.
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