Oral vancomycin desensitisation to treat Clostridium difficile infection in a vancomycin allergic patient

The prevalence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is increasing worldwide. Oral vancomycin is an effective and frequently used treatment. However, patients with CDI who are allergic to intravenous vancomycin cannot receive oral vancomycin due to the risk of anaphylaxis if given the oral form....

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Autores principales: Mahabir, Shanti, Lim, Ren Yik, Fitzpatrick, Fidelma, Magee, Colm, Keogan, Mary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: World Allergy Organization 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3850779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24079362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-4551-6-16
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author Mahabir, Shanti
Lim, Ren Yik
Fitzpatrick, Fidelma
Magee, Colm
Keogan, Mary
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Keogan, Mary
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description The prevalence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is increasing worldwide. Oral vancomycin is an effective and frequently used treatment. However, patients with CDI who are allergic to intravenous vancomycin cannot receive oral vancomycin due to the risk of anaphylaxis if given the oral form. We present a case where oral vancomycin desensitisation was used to successfully treat a vancomycin allergic patient with recurrent CDI.
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spelling pubmed-38507792013-12-05 Oral vancomycin desensitisation to treat Clostridium difficile infection in a vancomycin allergic patient Mahabir, Shanti Lim, Ren Yik Fitzpatrick, Fidelma Magee, Colm Keogan, Mary World Allergy Organ J Case Report The prevalence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is increasing worldwide. Oral vancomycin is an effective and frequently used treatment. However, patients with CDI who are allergic to intravenous vancomycin cannot receive oral vancomycin due to the risk of anaphylaxis if given the oral form. We present a case where oral vancomycin desensitisation was used to successfully treat a vancomycin allergic patient with recurrent CDI. World Allergy Organization 2013-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3850779/ /pubmed/24079362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-4551-6-16 Text en Copyright © 2013 Mahabir et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Magee, Colm
Keogan, Mary
Oral vancomycin desensitisation to treat Clostridium difficile infection in a vancomycin allergic patient
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title_full Oral vancomycin desensitisation to treat Clostridium difficile infection in a vancomycin allergic patient
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title_full_unstemmed Oral vancomycin desensitisation to treat Clostridium difficile infection in a vancomycin allergic patient
title_short Oral vancomycin desensitisation to treat Clostridium difficile infection in a vancomycin allergic patient
title_sort oral vancomycin desensitisation to treat clostridium difficile infection in a vancomycin allergic patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3850779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24079362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-4551-6-16
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