Urticaria After Lidocaine Use for Pecto-Intercostal Nerve Block

Urticaria within one hour of lidocaine injection is a sign of type I (immediate) hypersensitivity to lidocaine, yet most patients suspected of having a lidocaine allergy do not exhibit urticaria. Aside from being a sign of a rare lidocaine allergy, urticaria can also be a symptom of COVID-19. COVID-...

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Autores principales: Ambai, Vats T, Atawala, Neel, Kalava, Arun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Anesthesiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10008477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36919068
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34834
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description Urticaria within one hour of lidocaine injection is a sign of type I (immediate) hypersensitivity to lidocaine, yet most patients suspected of having a lidocaine allergy do not exhibit urticaria. Aside from being a sign of a rare lidocaine allergy, urticaria can also be a symptom of COVID-19. COVID-19 patients who experience urticaria after receiving lidocaine require careful evaluation to determine the cause. Here, we present a case of a patient exhibiting urticaria one hour after a lidocaine injection for the Pecto-intercostal nerve block to treat COVID-19-induced costochondritis.
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spelling pubmed-100084772023-03-13 Urticaria After Lidocaine Use for Pecto-Intercostal Nerve Block Ambai, Vats T Atawala, Neel Kalava, Arun Cureus Anesthesiology Urticaria within one hour of lidocaine injection is a sign of type I (immediate) hypersensitivity to lidocaine, yet most patients suspected of having a lidocaine allergy do not exhibit urticaria. Aside from being a sign of a rare lidocaine allergy, urticaria can also be a symptom of COVID-19. COVID-19 patients who experience urticaria after receiving lidocaine require careful evaluation to determine the cause. Here, we present a case of a patient exhibiting urticaria one hour after a lidocaine injection for the Pecto-intercostal nerve block to treat COVID-19-induced costochondritis. Cureus 2023-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10008477/ /pubmed/36919068 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34834 Text en Copyright © 2023, Ambai et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Urticaria After Lidocaine Use for Pecto-Intercostal Nerve Block
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title_short Urticaria After Lidocaine Use for Pecto-Intercostal Nerve Block
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10008477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36919068
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34834
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