Abstract:Objective To explore and analyze the signals of imatinib-associated cutaneous adverse drug reactions based on American FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), and to provide reference for safe drug use in clinical practice.Methods Using Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) to query the preferred terms (PT) of the system organ classes (SOC) as skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders, and extracting the relevant cases from the FAERS. After deduplication of the data, the signals were detected and analyzed by reporting odds ratio (ROR) method and proportional reporting ratio (PRR) method.Results A total of 2 797 related adverse drug events (ADEs) reports were obtained. Most of them were female patients (55.27%). The age distribution was mainly 45~64 years old (24.60%). Reports with serious adverse outcome accounted for 28.20%. The signal detection results showed that ROR method and PRR method detected 40 suspicious ADE signals at the same time, among which the signals with high intensity were necrotizing panniculitis (n=7, ROR=121.33, 95% CI: 49.47~297.60), pseudoporphyria (n=21, ROR=31.21, 95% CI: 19.85~49.08), skin fragility (n=23, ROR=18.75, 95% CI: 12.28~28.64), parakeratosis (n=11, ROR=22.70, 95% CI: 12.26~42.04), skin hypopigmentation (n=22, ROR=11.56, 95% CI: 7.54~17.72) etc. In addition, 20 ADEs not mentioned on the drug label were found, including skin fragility, parakeratosis, pyoderma gangrenosum, necrotizing panniculitis and acanthosis.Conclusion Imatinib was associated with many skin adverse reactions, and clinicians should be vigilant and timely identify the ADEs not yet mentioned on the drug label when using imatinib, so as to ensure safe medication for patients.