Acute Phase Reaction After Infliximab Infusion

Linear IgA dermatosis after infliximab infusion for ulcerative colitis

IBD: inflammatory bowel disease LAD: linear IgA dermatosis TNF: tumor necrosis factor UC: ulcerative colitis INTRODUCTION Linear IgA dermatosis (LAD) is an idiopathic or drug-induced autoimmune subepidermal blistering disease characterized by linear deposition of IgA antibodies along the dermoepidermal junction. The pathogenesis, although incompletely understood, involves the formation of derma...

Severe anaphylactic reaction during the second infusion of infliximab in a patient with psoriatic arthritis.

A 33-yer-old woman with no history of atopy, diagnosed of psoriatic arthritis, received 200 mg I.V. infliximab, with previous oral administration of loratadine and betamethasone, that was well tolerated. Two minutes after a second infusion two weeks later, with the same pretreatment, the patients suffer dyspnea, laryngeal spasm, generalized tremor, vomiting, hypotension, sinusal tachycardia, an...

Shortening infusion times for infliximab administration.

Acute transient encephalopathy after weekly paclitaxel infusion.

Paclitaxel is highly active against a variety of solid tumors including breast lung, ovarian and head and neck cancer. Although peripheral neurotoxicity is well-known side effect, central nervous system (CNS) toxicity-related standard dose of paclitaxel is extremely uncommon, because paclitaxel dose not cross the blood-brain barrier and is not detectable in the cerebrospinal fluid. We present a...

Acute renal failure after infusion of gelatins.

BrMedJ 1989;299: 1137-8 Comment Most of the women seeking abortions in the practices were healthy and remained so afterwards. The most common complication was infection of the upper genital tract in five women. Two women presented with a severe, acute illness within 48 hours of termination, and C trachomatis was implicated in both. The results of bacteriological studies of both women before ter...