2015
DOI: 10.1159/000440663
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In vitro Diagnosis of Immediate Drug Hypersensitivity: Should We Go with the Flow?

Abstract: Background: Diagnosis of immediate drug hypersensitivity reactions (IDHRs) is based upon history taking, skin prick or intradermal tests and quantification of specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies. Unfortunately, this is often insufficient to correctly identify patients with IgE-mediated IDHRs and is impossible in the case of non-IgE-mediated IDHRs. Drug provocation tests (DPT) are considered the ‘gold standard' diagnostic but are not always possible, for ethical and practical reasons. Therefore, the vali… Show more

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“…Drug allergy was suspected in children who had a history of any reaction after a specific drug intake; it was confirmed by measuring drug-specific IgE and/or SPT and/or a drug provocation test [8]. The diagnosis of FA in children with a history of symptoms associated with specific food intake and/or those with food sIgE ≥0.35 kU/l and/or a positive SPT was made after an elimination diet with a food challenge.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Drug allergy was suspected in children who had a history of any reaction after a specific drug intake; it was confirmed by measuring drug-specific IgE and/or SPT and/or a drug provocation test [8]. The diagnosis of FA in children with a history of symptoms associated with specific food intake and/or those with food sIgE ≥0.35 kU/l and/or a positive SPT was made after an elimination diet with a food challenge.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The test tubes are then rotated at 4°C and 200´g for 5 min. After the tubes are prepared, in order to select the basophil and measure the activity before starting to work in flow cytometry, the cells are stained with 20 μL monoclonal anti-human IgE, 10 μL monoclonal CD63, and 10 μL CD203C antibodies on ice for 20 min (9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14). Then, the tubes are worked on in the flow cytometry.…”
Section: Basophil Activation Test: How Is the Activation Of In Vitro mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sometimes, they are used together in the evaluations. It is known that the sensitivity and specificity of BAT increase when they are used together (9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14).…”
Section: Basophil Activation Test: How Is the Activation Of In Vitro mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, in patients who experienced IHR, extensive skin allergic investigations (Prick tests and intradermal tests [IDT]) were often negative [13]. Functional tests exploring the in vitro activation of basophils induced by IFX and mimicking cell immunologic events that lead to the onset of clinical symptoms in vivo have been more recently developed [23]. Basophil activation tests (BAT) are now increasingly widespread and used for the diagnosis of specific allergy to drugs [24], but the usefulness of such in vitro tests in IHR to IFX is unknown.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%