A clinically suspected case of Anaphylactoid reaction to vitamin K injection in a child – a case report and review of literature

Vitamin K is commonly indicated in pediatric patients with coagulopathies. Its commercial preparations are available in the market since long. Minor complications are very well-known, but life-threatening events are rarely reported in children. We present a case of 8-year-old child who developed lif...

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Autores principales: Choudhary, Bharat, Kumari, Sweta, Dhingra, Bhavna, Jhaj, Ratinder
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Drug Watch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27756962
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.186216
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author Choudhary, Bharat
Kumari, Sweta
Dhingra, Bhavna
Jhaj, Ratinder
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description Vitamin K is commonly indicated in pediatric patients with coagulopathies. Its commercial preparations are available in the market since long. Minor complications are very well-known, but life-threatening events are rarely reported in children. We present a case of 8-year-old child who developed life-threatening event following intravenous Vitamin K injection. She was survived after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The reaction was most probably due to anaphylactoid reaction to Vitamin K.
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spelling pubmed-49809392016-10-18 A clinically suspected case of Anaphylactoid reaction to vitamin K injection in a child – a case report and review of literature Choudhary, Bharat Kumari, Sweta Dhingra, Bhavna Jhaj, Ratinder Indian J Pharmacol Drug Watch Vitamin K is commonly indicated in pediatric patients with coagulopathies. Its commercial preparations are available in the market since long. Minor complications are very well-known, but life-threatening events are rarely reported in children. We present a case of 8-year-old child who developed life-threatening event following intravenous Vitamin K injection. She was survived after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The reaction was most probably due to anaphylactoid reaction to Vitamin K. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4980939/ /pubmed/27756962 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.186216 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Pharmacology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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A clinically suspected case of Anaphylactoid reaction to vitamin K injection in a child – a case report and review of literature
title A clinically suspected case of Anaphylactoid reaction to vitamin K injection in a child – a case report and review of literature
title_full A clinically suspected case of Anaphylactoid reaction to vitamin K injection in a child – a case report and review of literature
title_fullStr A clinically suspected case of Anaphylactoid reaction to vitamin K injection in a child – a case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed A clinically suspected case of Anaphylactoid reaction to vitamin K injection in a child – a case report and review of literature
title_short A clinically suspected case of Anaphylactoid reaction to vitamin K injection in a child – a case report and review of literature
title_sort clinically suspected case of anaphylactoid reaction to vitamin k injection in a child – a case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27756962
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.186216
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