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Recurrent pericarditis: a rare complication of allergen immunotherapy
S Quirce1, M Fernandez Rivas, E Losada
1Servicio de Alergia, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
We report on a 29-year-old woman suffering from hay fever due to grass and olive tree pollens. She developed recurrent pericarditis during her first course of immunotherapy with an alum-adsorbed pollen extract. A causal relationship was established between the allergen injections and the acute pericarditis episodes on two consecutive occasions, which presented with blood eosinophilia. Blood cultures and serological tests for microorganisms were negative. There were no signs of autoimmune disease or systemic vasculitis. To the best of our knowledge, allergen immunotherapy-induced pericarditis has not been previously reported.
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