Drug Hypersensitivity - Diagnosis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Rapid desensitization for hypersensitivity reactions to medications.

30 Jul 2009 Drug desensitization is the induction of temporary clinical unresponsiveness to drug antigens to which patients have presented severe hypersensitivity reactions. It is typically achieved by gradual reintroduction of small doses of drug antigens at ... Read more...

Provocation tests in drug hypersensitivity.

30 Jul 2009 Provocation tests are regarded as the "gold standard" to establish or exclude the presence of hypersensitivity to a certain drugs because they reproduce not only allergy symptoms but other adverse manifestations, irrespective of their ... Read more...

The basophil activation test in immediate-type drug allergy.

30 Jul 2009 Diagnosis of drug allergy involves first the recognition of sometimes unusual symptoms as drug allergy and, second, the identification of the eliciting drug. This is an often difficult task, as the clinical picture and underlying pathomechanisms are ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Drug Hypersensitivity - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Rapid desensitization for hypersensitivity reactions to medications. 30 Jul 2009
• Provocation tests in drug hypersensitivity. 30 Jul 2009
• The basophil activation test in immediate-type drug allergy. 30 Jul 2009
• In vitro tests in drug hypersensitivity diagnosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Skin testing in delayed reactions to drugs. 30 Jul 2009
• Skin testing for IgE-mediated drug allergy. 30 Jul 2009
• The variable clinical picture of drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome/drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms in relation to the eliciting drug. 30 Jul 2009
• Heparin allergy: delayed-type non-IgE-mediated allergic hypersensitivity to subcutaneous heparin injection. 30 Jul 2009
• Immediate and delayed reactions to radiocontrast media: is there an allergic mechanism? 30 Jul 2009
• Perioperative anaphylaxis. 30 Jul 2009
• Approach to the patient with drug allergy. 30 Jul 2009
• Preface. Drug hypersensitivity. 30 Jul 2009
• IgE-mediated anaphylaxis to intraarticular glucocorticoid preparations. 30 Jul 2009
• Calculating the prevalence of atopy in children. 21 Jul 2009
• Update on esophagitis: controversial and underdiagnosed causes. 29 Jun 2009
• The convenience of flow cytometry for HLA-B*5701 screening to prevent abacavir hypersensitivity reactions. 29 Jun 2009
• The investigation of bronchospasm during induction of anaesthesia. 28 Jun 2009
• Hypersensitivity reactions to penicillins: studies in a group of patients with negative benzylpenicillin G skin test. 30 May 2009
• [Clinical examination of challenge test to local anesthetics] 30 May 2009
• Improving drug safety by locating genetic markers for hypersensitivity reactions. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Drug Hypersensitivity'

Definition: Immunologically mediated adverse reactions to medicinal substances used legally or illegally.

Descriptor UI: D004342

Alternative terms: Drug Hypersensitivity; Drug Hypersensitivities; Hypersensitivities, Drug; Drug Allergy; Allergies, Drug; Drug Allergies; Hypersensitivity, Drug; Allergy, Drug;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C20.543.206;

History Note: 66; was DRUG ALLERGY 1963-65

Technical Notes: use in conventional sense and not for allergy to every category D term; allergy to non-drug chemical substance=substance /ad eff + HYPERSENSITIVITY or its specifics /etiol; manual 23.24+