Anaphylaxis associated with omalizumab administration: risk factors and patient characteristics

PL Lieberman, I Jones, R Rajwanshi… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2017 - jacionline.org
This dataset represents the largest number of adjudicated cases of anaphylaxis associated
with omalizumab and is about 3 times the number of adjudicated anaphylaxis cases
reported in our initial study. 1 These results suggest that a specific subpopulation of patients,
that is, those with a prior history of anaphylaxis unrelated to omalizumab use, may be
particularly prone to developing anaphylaxis with omalizumab administration. It is critical to
note that this observation was unexpected. We are not aware of any prior report identifying …