Diagnosis and management of immediate hypersensitivity reactions to cephalosporins

Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 131-142

  Dickson, Scott D ^a   Salazar, Kimberly C ^b  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SAN ANTONIO MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cephalosporins; Diagnosis; IgE mediated; Immediate hypersensitivity; Management

Indexed keywords

CEFACLOR; CEFADROXIL; CEFALEXIN; CEFALOGLYCIN; CEFALORIDINE; CEFALOTIN; CEFAMANDOLE; CEFAPIRIN; CEFATRIZINE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFDINIR; CEFDITOREN; CEFEPIME; CEFETAMET; CEFIXIME; CEFMENOXIME; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFMINOX; CEFONICID; CEFOTETAN; CEFOTIAM; CEFOXITIN; CEFPROZIL; CEFRADINE; CEFTAROLINE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; LORACARBEF; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; CROSS REACTION; DRUG FEVER; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; LARYNX EDEMA; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; NEUTROPENIA; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PROVOCATION TEST; REVIEW; SERUM SICKNESS; SKIN TEST; SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TISSUE INJURY; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS; WHEEZING;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CROSS REACTIONS; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EPITOPES; HUMANS; PENICILLINS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 84880841040     PISSN: 10800549     EISSN: 15590267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12016-013-8367-x     Document Type: Review

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