Safety, Costs, and Efficacy of Rapid Drug Desensitizations to Chemotherapy and Monoclonal Antibodies
Sloane D, Govindarajulu U, Harrow-Mortelliti J, Barry W, Hsu FI, Hong D, Laidlaw T, Palis R, Legere H, Bunyavanich S, Breslow R, Wesemann D, Barrett N, Brennan P, Chong HJ, Liu A, Fernandez J, Fanning L, Kyin T, Cahill K, Bankova L, Lynch A, Berlin S, Campos S, Fuchs C, Mayer R, Matulonis U, Castells M. Safety, Costs, and Efficacy of Rapid Drug Desensitizations to Chemotherapy and Monoclonal Antibodies. The Journal Of Allergy And Clinical Immunology In Practice 2016, 4: 497-504. PMID: 26895621, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaip.2015.12.019.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRapid drug desensitizationDrug desensitizationAllergic patientsLife expectancyMonoclonal antibodiesNonallergic control groupOptimal pharmacological agentsOverall health costsFirst-line therapyAdministration of carboplatinConnective tissue diseaseStandard of careIndividual patient reactionsDesensitized patientsNonallergic groupAllergic groupLine therapyRisk stratificationTissue diseaseHypersensitivity reactionsChronic diseasesOvarian cancerSevere reactionsNonsignificant increasePharmacological agents