Severe vancomycin-induced anaphylactic reaction
by
Rūta Kupstaitė
1,
Asta Baranauskaitė
1,
Margarita Pileckytė
1,
Audrius Sveikata
2,
Edmundas Kaduševičius
2,* and 
Gintarė Muckienė
3 1
Department of Rheumatology, Kaunas University of Medicine
2
Department of Theoretical and Clinical Pharmacology, Kaunas University of Medicine
3
Kaunas 2nd Clinical Hospital
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Medicina 2010, 46(1), 31; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/medicina46010005
Submission received: 24 March 2009
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Accepted: 4 January 2010
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Published: 9 January 2010
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.
Keywords:
vancomycin; anaphylaxis; side effects; case report
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Kupstaitė, R.; Baranauskaitė, A.; Pileckytė, M.; Sveikata, A.; Kaduševičius, E.; Muckienė, G. Severe vancomycin-induced anaphylactic reaction. Medicina 2010, 46, 31. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/medicina46010005
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Kupstaitė R, Baranauskaitė A, Pileckytė M, Sveikata A, Kaduševičius E, Muckienė G. Severe vancomycin-induced anaphylactic reaction. Medicina. 2010; 46(1):31. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/medicina46010005
Chicago/Turabian StyleKupstaitė, Rūta, Asta Baranauskaitė, Margarita Pileckytė, Audrius Sveikata, Edmundas Kaduševičius, and Gintarė Muckienė. 2010. "Severe vancomycin-induced anaphylactic reaction" Medicina 46, no. 1: 31. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/medicina46010005
