Internal Medicine

Drug Allergy

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Have you been able to safely use other bisphosphonates in patients who developed an allergic reaction (angioedema) to fosamax?

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Is omalizumab an option for a patient needing a specific antibiotic with an IgE-mediated reaction who continues to have reactions during a desensitization?

1 Answer available

How would you treat a woman with iron deficiency anemia, unresponsive to iron sulfate, and with allergic reaction to iron sucrose?

Anemia is secondary to menorrhagia. No gynecologic interventions were possible.

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Do you prescribe fluocinolone in peanut oil in patients with peanut allergies?

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What are best practices in management of severe acute infusion reaction from infliximab?

Patient became acutely flushed, developed severe and prolonged hypotension with brief loss of consciousness, dizziness, nausea, dry heaves and headach...

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Do you recommend allopurinol desensitization in gout patients who develop a rash on allopurinol therapy?

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How do you advise patients who had autoimmune diseases "triggered" by COVID infections on getting COVID vaccination?

E.g., inflammatory polyarthritis or inflammatory myopathy with onset within 2 weeks of documented COVID infection

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Is it okay to use medications associated with drug-induced lupus in patients with SLE?

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For which rituximab infusion reaction symptoms do you consider it safe to re-challenge in the office with adjusted rates and pre-medications?

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How does your treatment algorithm differ for drug-induced ANCA vasculitis compared to non drug-induced ANCA vasculitis in cases with severe/organ-threatening manifestations?

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Do you prescribe silvadene cream for patients with a sulfa allergy?

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Papers discussed in this category

The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice, 2017

Reactions to Rituximab in an Outpatient Infusion Center: A 5-Year Review.

Lancet Rheumatol, 2021 Apr 06

Incident systemic rheumatic disease following COVID-19.

N Engl J Med, 2020 Nov 20

Covid-19-Associated Myopathy Caused by Type I Interferonopathy.

The New England journal of medicine, 2018-03-29

Cardiovascular Safety of Febuxostat or Allopurinol in Patients with Gout.

Lancet, 2020 Nov 09

Long-term cardiovascular safety of febuxostat compared with allopurinol in patients with gout (FAST): a multicentre, prospective, randomised, open-label, non-inferiority trial.

The American journal of gastroenterology, 2003 Jun

The incidence and management of infusion reactions to infliximab: a large center experience.

The Journal of rheumatology, 2015 Jun 15

Incidence and Management of Infusion Reactions to Infliximab in a Prospective Real-world Community Registry.

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2003-04

Fluocinolone acetonide 0.01% in peanut oil: therapy for childhood atopic dermatitis, even in patients who are peanut sensitive.

Clinical and translational allergy, 2020 Jan 29

Modified protocol of omalizumab treatment to prevent carboplatin-induced drug hypersensitivity reactions: a case study.

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