Abstract:Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) is a severe adverse drug reaction with a mortality rate near 10% characterized by erythematous cutaneous eruption, multiorgan involvement, and hypereosinophilia. This case report highlights a patient who developed DRESS in the setting of intravenous vancomycin and a vancomycin and tobramycin-impregnated (PROSTALAC, DePuy Synthes, Warsaw, IN) functional spacer. The spacer was placed during the revision of a left total knee replacement complicated by … Show more
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