Surveillance of systemic reactions to subcutaneous immunotherapy injections: year 1 outcomes of the ACAAI and AAAAI Collaborative Study

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 530-535

  Bernstein, David I ^a   Epstein, Tolly ^a   Murphy Berendts, Karen ^b   Liss, Gary M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bernstein Clinical Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TEST; SYMPTOM; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953165359     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: 15344436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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