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1Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA, USA.
Abstract:
Biologic and other therapies used for the treatment of immune-mediated hypersensitivity conditions, and in people with immune-mediated hypersensitivity, can trigger a wide variety of immune-related adverse drug reactions and immunologically mediated drug hypersensitivities. These range from acute-onset immunoglobulin E-mediated allergies to delayed-onset T-cell-mediated hypersensitivities. Certain therapeutic and diagnostic agents can directly activate mast cells. Biologic agents used to treat immune-mediated hypersensitivity can also globally upregulate or downregulate the immune system leading to pathologic reactions, including cytokine storm and hypogammaglobulinemia.
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