Correspondence

Most of the medical practitioner’s are under the impression that Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS) is an uncommon life threatening drug reaction. In fact it is not as rare a disorder as we are led to believe. Stevens Johnson Foundation claims that they come to know of 15 new cases a week and that is only people with internet access. In Bangladesh the real burden is never estimated as information on monitoring and reporting of adverse drug reactions are not available. Stevens Johnson Syndrome is an immune complex mediated idiosyncratic systemic hypersensitivity reaction that may be triggered by medications, viral, bacterial, fungal infection and malignancies. Recent reports link SJS to the use of drugs rather then other etiologies. Here we report a case of SJS with fatal outcome which is probably the first case encountered in Bangladesh induced by Azithromycin