Abstract
Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN) are potentially
life-threatening, immune-mediated adverse reactions characterized by widespread erythema,
epidermal necrosis, and detachment of skin and mucosa. Efforts to grow and develop
functional international collaborations and a multidisciplinary interactive network
focusing on SJS/TEN as an uncommon but high burden disease will be necessary to improve
efforts in prevention, early diagnosis and improved acute and long-term management.
SJS/TEN 2019: From Science to Translation was a 1.5-day scientific program held April 26–27, 2019, in Vancouver, Canada. The
meeting successfully engaged clinicians, researchers, and patients and conducted many
productive discussions on research and patient care needs.
Abbreviations:
ADR (Adverse drug reaction), AIDS (Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), ALDEN (Algorithm of drug causality for epidermal necrolysis), ALK (Anaplastic lymphoma kinase), AUS-SCAR (Australian registry of severe cutaneous adverse reactions), CBZ (Carbamazepine), CFH (Complement factor H), CLET (Cultivated limbal epithelial sell transplantation), COMET (Cultivated oral mucosal epithelial transplantation), CPNDS (Canadian Pharmacogenomics Network for Drug Safety), DILI (Drug-induced liver injury), DRESS (Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms), EHR (Electronic health records), EMA (European Medicines Agency), EpiPGx (Epilepsy Pharmacogenomics), eRMR (Electronic Reaction Monitoring Report), FDA (Food and Drug Administration), GWAS (Genome-wide association study), HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus), HLA (Human leukocyte antigen), IVIg (Intravenous immune globulin), iSCAR (International Congress on Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reaction), ITCH (International Consortium on Drug Hypersensitivity), LSCD (Limbal stem cell deficiency), MPE (Maculopapular eruption), NATIENS (North American Therapeutics in Epidermal Necrolysis Syndrome Network), PGx (Pharmacogenomics), PMDA (Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (in Japan)), PRAC (Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee), QOL (Quality of life), RegiSCAR (Multinational registry of Severe Cutaneous Adverse Reactions to drugs and collection of biological samples), SCAR (Severe cutaneous adverse reaction), SDH (Society of Dermatology Hospitalists), SEAPharm (Southeast Asian Pharmacogenomic Network), SOMET (Simple oral mucosal epithelial transplantation), SJS (Stevens-Johnson syndrome), TB (Tuberculosis), TCR (T cell receptor), TEN (Toxic epidermal necrolysis), TFDA (Taiwan Food and Drug Administration), T-SCAR (Taiwan Severe Cutaneous Adverse Reaction Consortium)Keywords
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Biography
Dr. Wan-Chun Chang is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia and British Columbia Children’s Hospital Research Institute in Vancouver, Canada who along with Drs. Bruce Carleton, Elizabeth Phillips, Wen-Hung Chung, Agnieszka Biala, and Kristina Williams helped coordinate SJS/TEN 2019 conference. During her training, Dr. Chang has focused on the pharmacogenomics of drug-induced severe cutaneous adverse reactions (SCAR), including Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN). Her current research at the Canadian Pharmacogenomics Network for Drug Safety (CPNDS) involves both pharmacogenomics and immunogenesis of the antiepileptic and antibiotic drug-induced SCAR in patients with different ancestries.
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Publication history
Published online: March 07, 2020
Accepted:
February 9,
2020
Received in revised form:
February 7,
2020
Received:
November 6,
2019
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