News Tagged ‘ocular complications’

Utah woman dies from complications of SJS

“This is not right and could have been prevented,” writes someone who commented on Cloanne Andrus Pesquera’s obituary in The Spectrum. Cloanne, 41, died May 30, 2009, after battling a rare but life-threatening condition called Stevens Johnson Syndrome, or . The woman who commented on the story said she had lost her mother to /TEN in 2006. She believes Cloanne’s death, like her mother’s, could have been prevented.

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Update on newspaper editor’s sister with SJS

Here’s an update to a story we brought you Monday about the sister of a newspaper managing editor who was diagnosed with Stevens Johnson Syndrome (). Mark Cripps says in an update column in Ancaster News that his sister Lisa is gradually recovering.

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Study focuses on eye complications from SJS/TEN

chart eye exam 150x150A group of researchers has found that patients with Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS) or toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) who have ocular complications are more likely to have late complications with their eyes and thus should undergo ophthalmologic screening, according to the February 2009 edition of the Archives of Dermatology. The cohort study focused on the acute and late ocular manifestations of and its more severe form, TEN, and how to identify predictors for the development of ocular complications.

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