Recognizing drug allergy: How to differentiate true allergy from other adverse drug reactions

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 32-39

  Weiss, Michael E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; ERYTHROMYCIN; OXIDIZING AGENT; PENICILLIN G; TERFENADINE;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGY; ANAMNESIS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; BRONCHOSPASM; CARDIOTOXICITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTACT SENSITIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; FIBROSIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; INTOXICATION; LARYNX EDEMA; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRURITUS; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; RASH; SERUM SICKNESS; SKIN TEST; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS; WHEEZING;

EID: 19944410149     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2005.05.1629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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