Successful Desensitization to Brentuximab After Anaphylactic Shock

Successful heparin desensitization after anaphylactic shock due to heparin.

A successful desensitization protocol in a patient with low molecular weight heparin induced anaphylactic reaction is being presented. A 72-years-old patient who was known to have multiple drug allergies and asthma was admitted with acute renal insufficiency. She had an anaphylactic reaction with a low molecular weight heparin during a hemodialysis session. Peritoneal dialysis was not feasible....

Anaphylactic shock after sensitization to gelatin.

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Successful desensitization to penicillin after diagnostic reassessment.

Clinical situations for which penicillin is indicated as the sole effective treatment are not infrequent, in these circumstances penicillin allergy complicates their medical management. No proven alternatives to penicillin are available for treating neurosyphilis, congenital syphilis, or syphilis in pregnant women, it is not possible choosing an alternative non betalactam antibiotic. The manage...

Anaphylactic shock to raspberry.

Anaphylactic Shock

Anaphylactic shock is an unexpected, sudden and sometimes deadly event that attacks the patient in 75% of the cases without pre-existent history of allergy. In general, drugs, hymenopteric poisons and nutrients (according to the recent concept) are responsible. Beside the classical IgE-mediated anaphylactic shock there exists another anaphylactic shock, identical in its clinical picture and tre...