Esen Özkaya • Kurtuluş Didem Yazganoğlu

2014

Adverse cutaneous drug reactions are among the most frequent events in patients receiving drug therapy. Cardiovascular drugs are an important group of drugs with potential risk of developing adverse cutaneous drug reaction especially in the elderly as marketing of more new drugs and their prescription continue to increase. However, like with most other drugs, the exact incidence of cutaneous side effects from cardiovascular drugs is difficult to estimate due to sporadic reporting.