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Case Reports
. 2010;46(1):30-3.

Severe vancomycin-induced anaphylactic reaction

Rūta Kupstaite  1 , Asta Baranauskaite, Margarita Pileckyte, Audrius Sveikata, Edmundas Kadusevicius, Gintare Muckiene
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  • PMID: 20234160
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Case Reports

Severe vancomycin-induced anaphylactic reaction

Rūta Kupstaite et al. Medicina (Kaunas). 2010.
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Abstract

Vancomycin is widely used against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, but it is associated with many adverse effects such as nephrotoxicity, ototoxicity, gastrointestinal disturbances, blood disorders, and two types of hypersensitivity reactions - an anaphylactoid reaction known as "red man syndrome" and anaphylaxis. We report a case of a 23-year-old man who developed a vancomycin-induced anaphylactic reaction in the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.

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