Perioperative and anesthetic deaths: toxicological and medico legal aspects [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Anesthesia has become safer during decades, though there is still a preventable mortality; the complexity of medical and surgical interventions, increasingly older and sicker patients, has created a host of new hazards in anesthesiology.
Argo A. +5 more
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Aetiology of anaphylaxis in patients referred to an immunology clinic in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2018 Background The aetiology of anaphylaxis differs according to types of foods consumed, fauna and foliage and cultural practices. Although the aetiology of anaphylaxis in Western countries are well known, the causes in South Asian countries have not been ...
Nilhan Rajiva de Silva +5 more
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Change in exhaled nitric oxide during peanut challenge is related to severity of reaction
Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2020 Background Peanut allergy affects 3% of Australian children and has a higher risk of anaphylaxis than most food allergies. Predicting who is likely to develop anaphylaxis is still an inexact science.
Elizabeth Percival +5 more
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SIAIP position paper: provocation challenge to antibiotics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in children [PDF]
, 2018 Drug hypersensitivity reactions (DHRs) in childhood are mainly caused by betalactam or non-betalactam antibiotics, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
Arasi, Stefania +19 more
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An adolescent girl with signs and symptoms of anaphylaxis and negative immunologic workup: a case report. [PDF]
, 2020 BackgroundThe increasing incidence of allergies and allergic reactions among children and adults has become a major public health concern. The etiology of allergic reactions can often be confirmed based on a detailed history and supportive testing ...
Bauer, Maureen +4 more
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Pascal's Wager, infective endocarditis and the "no-lose" philosophy in medicine [PDF]
, 2010 Doctors and dentists have traditionally used antibiotic prophylaxis in certain patient groups in order to prevent infective endocarditis (IE). New guidelines, however, suggest that the risk to patients from using antibiotics is higher than the risk from ...
Conway, D.I., Shaw, D.
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Different clinical features of anaphylaxis according to cause and risk factors for severe reactions
Allergology International, 2018 Background: Anaphylaxis is a life-threatening allergic reaction. Several studies reported different anaphylactic reactions according to the causative substances. However, a comparison of anaphylaxis for each cause has not been done.
Sang-Yoon Kim +2 more
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siRNA knockdown of SPHK1 in vivo protects mice from systemic, type-I Allergy. [PDF]
, 2007 Systemic anaphylaxis is considered to be a typical immediate hypersensitivity response, determined by the activation of immune cells, via antigen-induced aggregation of IgE-sensitized FcεRI cells.
Alirio Jose A. J. Melendez +2 more
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Fatal anaphylactic sting reaction in a patient with mastocytosis [PDF]
, 2008 We report on a 33-year-old female patient with indolent systemic mastocytosis and urticaria pigmentosa who died of an anaphylactic reaction after a yellow jacket sting.
B. Przybilla +9 more
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