Drug Hypersensitivity - Therapy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Unmet needs in severe chronic upper airway disease (SCUAD).

3 Aug 2009 Although the majority of patients with chronic upper airway diseases have controlled symptoms during treatment, many patients have severe chronic upper airway diseases (SCUADs). SCUAD defines those patients whose symptoms are inadequately controlled ... Read more...

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...

Approach to the patient with drug allergy.

30 Jul 2009 Drug allergies are adverse drug reactions mediated by the specific immune system. Despite characteristic signs (eg, skin rash) that raise awareness for possible drug allergies, they are great imitators of disease and may hide behind unexpected ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Drug Hypersensitivity - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Unmet needs in severe chronic upper airway disease (SCUAD). 3 Aug 2009
• Rapid desensitization for hypersensitivity reactions to medications. 30 Jul 2009
• Approach to the patient with drug allergy. 30 Jul 2009
• Preface. Drug hypersensitivity. 30 Jul 2009
• Foreword. Drug allergy and primum non-nocere. 30 Jul 2009
• Allergic reaction to mecasermin. 29 Jun 2009
• A case of oxaliplatin overdose. 29 Jun 2009
• Risk stratification for desensitization of patients with carboplatin hypersensitivity: clinical presentation and management. 30 May 2009
• [Crisis management during regional anesthesia including peripheral nerve block, epidural anesthesia and spinal anesthesia] 29 Apr 2009
• Hypersensitivity reactions to oxaliplatin: a retrospective study and the development of a desensitization protocol. 30 Mar 2009
• Successful desensitisation to ceftriaxone in a patient with doxycicline resistant Lyme disease. 27 Feb 2009
• [Reactions to infliximab infusions in dermatologic patients: consensus statement and treatment protocol. Working Group of the Grupo Español de Psoriasis de la Academia Española de Dermatología y Venereología ] 27 Feb 2009
• The acceptability of a four-part protocol for penicillin allergy testing by practicing allergists. 27 Feb 2009
• Diagnosis and management of hypersensitivity reactions related to common cancer chemotherapy agents. 27 Feb 2009
• Aspirin sensitivity and desensitization for asthma and sinusitis. 27 Feb 2009
• Gene-expression signatures of nasal polyps associated with chronic rhinosinusitis and aspirin-sensitive asthma. 30 Jan 2009
• Suspected anaphylactic reactions associated with anaesthesia. 30 Jan 2009
• Rapid desensitization to acetylsalicylic acid in acute coronary syndrome patients with NSAID intolerance. 30 Jan 2009
• Advances in allergic skin disease, anaphylaxis, and hypersensitivity reactions to foods, drugs, and insects in 2008. 30 Jan 2009
• Desensitization in interferon-beta1a allergy: a case report. 4 Jan 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+