TEN treatment without immunosuppressive therapy in a Burn Centre: A series of 10 cases

Abstract

Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is a serious and infrequent skin disease, usually secondary to drugs. Since the disease includes severe exfoliative disease it has been treated in Burn Centers due to large skin losses. The mechanism leading to the development of lesions is not fully known; the main role is attributed to dysfunction of T lymphocytes (1). The mortality, ranging from 10% to 70% (2), predominantly results from severe complications of multiple organ failure and infections affecting extensive areas of inflamed skin.

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