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A 78-year-old man with a history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and mantle cell lymphoma after splenectomy and chemotherapy came to the ED with a rash of 5 days’ duration and a 2-week history of dyspnea. He also had cough with white sputum and occasional fever without chills. The patient had taken vancomycin(Drug information on vancomycin) and piperacillin(Drug information on piperacillin)/tazobactam 3 weeks earlier during a hospitalization for osteomyelitis. The diagnosis was drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome.
