A 22-year-old female asked:
how many times have you seen stevens-johnson syndrome caused by prescribed diltiazem?
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Dr. Mark Rasak answered
32 years experience Cardiology
Very rare: the syndrome alone is very rare - one person per million kinda rare. can occur with any drug but usually a sulfa based drug and very very rare with diltiazem. Probably would have to do a world litature search to find even a few cases related to this drug.
Answered on Jul 14, 2014
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