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Interesting Incidences of Anaphylaxis
Everyone,
During my normal monthly reading of the various medical journals I caught a one of the more recent case reports in the Journal Of Emergency Medicine. It highlights a case in Turkey where
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Originally Posted by American Journal of Emergency Medicine (2009) 27, 130.e1–130.e2, Didem Ay MD, Can Aktas MD, Sezgin Sarikaya MD, Asli Cetin MD, Yeditepe University, Emergency Department Istanbul, Turkey, E-mail address: aydidem@yahoo.com
We present a 37-year-old woman who developed an anaphylactic reaction to normal saline infusion during evaluation for her acute abdominal pain.
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. Noting that this is an exceptionally rare condition it got me to wondering what if any rare cases of anaphylactic-anaphylactoid reactions you all may have encountered in your practice?
Last edited by ACE844; 03-02-2009 at 13:54.
Reason: edited to add anaphylactic-anaphylactoid to the end of my post due to the great point made by the poster below!
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