Anaphylaxis Presenting as Uvulitis

The authors present a case of a young man who woke up with uvular swelling resulting in a severely narrowed airway. He had ingested peanut butter the prior night but was unaware of any allergies. He was treated with epinephrine, diphenhydramine, and methylprednisolone which resulted in resolution of...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Lilly, Stead, Thor S, Lopez Ortiz, Carlos, Gillespie, Rita, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8502013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34660058
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17853
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description The authors present a case of a young man who woke up with uvular swelling resulting in a severely narrowed airway. He had ingested peanut butter the prior night but was unaware of any allergies. He was treated with epinephrine, diphenhydramine, and methylprednisolone which resulted in resolution of the airway compromise. The authors discuss the mechanism of anaphylaxis and the emergency management of this life-threatening condition.
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spelling pubmed-85020132021-10-14 Anaphylaxis Presenting as Uvulitis Nguyen, Lilly Stead, Thor S Lopez Ortiz, Carlos Gillespie, Rita Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine The authors present a case of a young man who woke up with uvular swelling resulting in a severely narrowed airway. He had ingested peanut butter the prior night but was unaware of any allergies. He was treated with epinephrine, diphenhydramine, and methylprednisolone which resulted in resolution of the airway compromise. The authors discuss the mechanism of anaphylaxis and the emergency management of this life-threatening condition. Cureus 2021-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8502013/ /pubmed/34660058 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17853 Text en Copyright © 2021, Nguyen 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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Anaphylaxis Presenting as Uvulitis
title Anaphylaxis Presenting as Uvulitis
title_full Anaphylaxis Presenting as Uvulitis
title_fullStr Anaphylaxis Presenting as Uvulitis
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title_short Anaphylaxis Presenting as Uvulitis
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topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8502013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34660058
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