DRESS syndrome differential diagnosis

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Yazan Daaboul, M.D., Serge Korjian M.D.

DRESS syndrome must be differentiated from other diseases that cause fever, rash, and visceral involvement, such as exanthematous pustulosis, psoriasis, Still’s disease, toxic epidermal necrolysis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, lymphoma, serum sickness, drug-induced liver injury, and Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome.

Differential diagnoses of DRESS syndrome include the following:

• Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis
• Angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy
• Autoimmune hepatitis
• Cholecystitis
• CMV mononucleosis
• Dermatitis
• Drug-induced liver injury
• Drug-induced nephrotoxicity
• EBV mononucleosis
• Gilbert syndrome
• Hypereosinophilic syndrome
• Kawasaki disease
• Lymphoma
• Psoriasis
• Serum sickness
• Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
• Stevens-Johnson syndrome
• Still’s disease
• Toxic epidermal necrolysis
• Vasculitis
• Viral exanthem
• Viral hepatitis

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