Kounis Syndrome in a Young Patient After Bee Sting: Case Report

Kounis Syndrome (Type I) Following Bee Sting

Bee stings are commonly encountered worldwide. Various manifestations after bee sting have been described 1 . Local reactions are common. Unusually, manifestations like vomiting, diarrhoea, dyspnoea, generalised oedema, acute renal failure, hypotension and collapse may occur. Rarely vasculitis, serum sickness, neuritis and encephalitis have been described which generally develop days to weeks a...

After Administration of Intravenous Epinephrine for bee Sting-induced Anaphylaxis: Kounis Syndrome or Epinephrine Effect?

a 50‑year‑old male patient, stented with a bare metal stent followed by 3 overlapping drug‑eluting stents, developed anaphylactic reaction following a bee sting that was treated with intravenous 0.1 mg epinephrine at a 1:100,000 together with intravenous methylprednisolone, chlorpheniramine maleate, and ranitidine. He developed, immediately after, an anterior wall myocardial infarction, and sub...

Parkinsonism following Bee Sting: A Case Report

We are reporting here a rare case of Parkinsonism (Hypokinetic dysarthria) caused after a bee stung, a member of the hymenoptera order. The main aim of this report is to orient the clinicians with the possibility of extrapyramidal syndromes because of hymenoptera stings.

Bonsai-induced Kounis Syndrome in a young male patient

Allergic angina following wasp sting: Kounis syndrome

Kounis syndrome is defined as an acute coronary syndrome triggered by the release of inflammatory mediators following an allergic insult characterized by acute onset of breathlessness, palpitations, diaphoresis and chest tightness (Gázquez V, Dalmau G, Gaig P, Gómez C, Navarro S, Mercé J. Kounis syndrome: report of 5 cases. J Investig Allergol Clin Immunol 2010;20:162-5). We report a 20-year-ma...