idiopathic anaphylaxis


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idiopathic anaphylaxis

Anaphylaxis of uncertain cause. Some evidence suggests it may occasionally result from exposure to food allergens.
See also: anaphylaxis
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Here, we discuss the effect of omalizumab in malignant idiopathic anaphylaxis in light of recent literature by presenting our treatment experience in a patient with steroid-dependent malignant idiopathic anaphylaxis.
With these clinical and laboratory findings, a diagnosis of idiopathic anaphylaxis was made, because no relationship with any known triggering factor could definitively be demonstrated.
The patient was thought to have steroid-dependent malignant idiopathic anaphylaxis because the prednisolone dose could not be reduced below 30 mg daily.
Omalizumab's role in the treatment of steroid dependent malignant idiopathic anaphylaxis
A continued surveillance of patients with anaphylaxis should be planned so that a larger patient sample could be examined and particularly assess the cases reported as idiopathic anaphylaxis over time.
Anaphylaxis: an analysis of cases evaluated at the Puerto Rico Medical Center over a ten-year period
A 74-year-old man was referred for evaluation of recurrent urticaria and idiopathic anaphylaxis, which he reported he had had since 1963.
There is also a group of patients, such as the patient in this report, who have idiopathic anaphylaxis in whom an antigen or precipitating factor is not identified.
Association of penicillin allergy with idiopathic anaphylaxis

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