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Unexpected outcome (positive or negative) including adverse drug reactions
Rosuvastatin-induced pemphigoid
  1. Aizuri A Murad,
  2. Maureen Connolly,
  3. Anne-Marie Tobin
  1. Dermatology Department, Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
  1. Correspondence to Dr Aizuri A Murad, aiz100{at}hotmail.com

Summary

Statins are widely prescribed medications and very well tolerated. Rosuvastatin is another member of this drug used to treat dyslipidaemia. It is a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase. Immunobullous disease is usually idiopathic but can be drug-induced. Both idiopathic and iatrogenic forms share common clinical and immunohistological features. The authors report a case of pemphigoid induced by rosuvastatin, a commonly prescribed medication. To our knowledge, there is limited report on rosuvastatin associated with pemphigoid in the literature.

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