Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
Therapeutic efficacy of carbamazepine in a HIV-1–positive patient with psoriatic erythroderma☆,☆☆,★,★★
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CASE REPORT
A 29-year-old HIV-1–positive white man had disseminated varicella-zoster virus develop in 1992. At approximately the same time, the patient was treated for plaque psoriasis and initially the patient responded to topical therapy. During the next year, he had Pneumocystis pneumonia and disseminated Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection developed. By the end of 1994, the patient’s peripheral CD4 + T cell count was < 10/μm 3 . Soon thereafter he was having increasing problems controlling his
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Etretinate was considered the best initial choice for therapy of this patient, but carbamazepine was given mistakenly. Carbamazepine (5-carbamyl-5H-dibenzolazepine) is a tricyclic compound that has been used for many years in the treatment of epilepsy and other neurologic diseases. 4 Although the mechanism of action of carbamazepine is not well defined, it significantly inhibits the uptake of norepinephrine. It also appears to block a cyclic AMP–mediated calcium influx that is associated both
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