Anaphylaxis during anesthesia is a life-threatening situation that occurs uncommonly. A 60-year-old woman with a history of anaphylaxis during previous anesthesia is scheduled to undergo elective open cholecystectomy. Her skin tests revealed sensitivity to vecuronium and nonsensitivity to injections of midazolam, fentanyl, and propofol. Due to high incidence of cross sensitivity among neuromusc...

A 50-year-old woman was referred from dental clinic to be evaluated for hypersensitivity for articaine. Previously 3 years ago she had urticaria in 10-15 min after administration of a local anaesthetic agent for a dental procedure. She did not know the name of the local anaesthetic agent. For the last 6 years she had been followed with diagnoses of chronic urticaria and angioedema in dermatolog...

Several important papers concerning the results of intradermal tests with the peptide antigen of helminths prepared by Yamamura's method which was designed for the extraction of tuberculin active peptide have been published. For examples, Ishii and Morisawa (1961) applied it to paragonimiasis, Yoshimura (1963) to filariasis, and Tada (1966) to gnathostomiasis. Akusawa and Tsuchiya (1965) also d...

TO THE EDITOR—We read with great interest the recent article by Wieten et al in Clinical Infectious Diseases [1] and, being involved in ongoing research strictly related to this topic, we wish to bring our contribution to their reflections. First, we fully agree that a lower-dose, abbreviated intradermal preand postexposure vaccination schedule may constitute a valid, shorter, and cheaper alter...

I write in response to the article by Al Jarad et al on this topic. The first study to compare the eYcacy of BCG vaccination and its side eVects using the Bignal multipuncture device with the reusable handle and disposable heads was the pilot study of neonatal BCG vaccination carried out in 1992 for the Department of Health in our health authority. In previous studies in neonates and children u...

INTRODUCTION True allergy to local anesthetics, especially lidocaine, is uncommon. Most adverse reactions to this group of medications are classified as psychomotor, autonomic or toxic. In the case of suspected hypersensitivity to local anesthetics, skin testing is considered to be a useful tool - patch tests and intradermal tests for delayed hypersensitivity and skin prick tests and intraderma...

I write in response to the article by Al Jarad et al on this topic. The first study to compare the eYcacy of BCG vaccination and its side eVects using the Bignal multipuncture device with the reusable handle and disposable heads was the pilot study of neonatal BCG vaccination carried out in 1992 for the Department of Health in our health authority. In previous studies in neonates and children u...

I write in response to the article by Al Jarad et al on this topic. The first study to compare the eYcacy of BCG vaccination and its side eVects using the Bignal multipuncture device with the reusable handle and disposable heads was the pilot study of neonatal BCG vaccination carried out in 1992 for the Department of Health in our health authority. In previous studies in neonates and children u...