Anaphylactic shock with intravenous furosemide: a rare undesired effect

Anaphylactic Shock

Anaphylactic shock is an unexpected, sudden and sometimes deadly event that attacks the patient in 75% of the cases without pre-existent history of allergy. In general, drugs, hymenopteric poisons and nutrients (according to the recent concept) are responsible. Beside the classical IgE-mediated anaphylactic shock there exists another anaphylactic shock, identical in its clinical picture and tre...

Anaphylactic shock in a patient with mastocytosis.

Paramedics found the woman to be in a state of pulseless electrical activity 20 minutes after the cardiovascular collapse. They immediately commenced an adrenaline infusion and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and intubation before transporting her to the emergency department. The adrenaline infusion was ceased after 3 hours, when she was deemed to be haemodynamically stable. On presenta...

Anaphylactic Shock by Azodyes

Experiments are described which show that anaphylactic shock can be induced in animals sensitized with azoproteins by injecting them with azodyes containing the same azo components as the sensitizing antigen. The anaphylactic reactions are specific and occur with quantities of the dyes as small as fractions of milligrams.

Anaphylactic shock to raspberry.

Anaphylactic shock secondary to intravenous administration of folinic acid: a first report.

BACKGROUND Folates, components of the B-complex vitamins, have numerous pharmacological effects. In oncology combining folates with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) enhances the cytotoxic effects of chemotherapy in colon cancer patients. Folic acid has been rarely involved in adverse allergic reactions. To the best of our knowledge no anaphylactic reaction secondary to folinic acid (FA) administration has...