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  • Title: Drug hypersensitivity.
    Author: Solensky R.
    Journal: Med Clin North Am; 2006 Jan; 90(1):233-60. PubMed ID: 16310532.
    Abstract:
    Allergic drug reactions compose a small percentage of ADRs, yet they are commonly encountered in clinical practice, and physicians are taught routinely to question patients about these reactions during history taking. Among antibiotics, the immunochemistry of penicillins has been elucidated,leading to the development of validated skin test reagents to diagnose type 1 allergy. Currently, the temporary commercial unavailability of Pre-Pen makes accurate penicillin skin testing impossible; however, this important skin test reagent is expected to become available sometime in 2006. Type 1 allergies to most other drugs lack comparable diagnostic tests, and their diagnosis is therefore driven by the patient's history. When readministration of medications to which patients report previous reactions is indicated, it may be almost always successfully accomplished by means of either graded challenge or desensitization.
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