Severe allergic reactions to thiol-based cytoprotective agents mesna and amifostine in a child with a supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal Tumor

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Dorris, Kathleen ^a   Fouladi, Maryam ^a   Davies, Stella M ^a   Perentesis, John P ^a   Lawrence, Julia M ^a   Chow, Lionel M L ^a   Assa'Ad, Amal ^a   Uygungil, Burcin ^a   Jodele, Sonata ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

allergy; amifostin; hypersensitivity; mesna; thiol

Indexed keywords

2 (3 AMINOPROPYLAMINO)ETHANETHIOL; AMIFOSTINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE; INOTROPIC AGENT; MESNA; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ALLERGY TEST; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EOSINOPHILIA; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; INTUBATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; OLIGURIA; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKULL IRRADIATION;

AMIFOSTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MESNA; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; PROGNOSIS; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80051782600     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e31820c3403     Document Type: Article

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