Transfer of Symptomatic Peanut Allergy to the Recipient of a Combined Liver-And-Kidney Transplant
Open Access
- 18 September 1997
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 337 (12) , 822-825
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199709183371204
Abstract
Peanuts are one of the commonest causes of food allergy in the United States and Europe.1-3 They are also a leading cause of food-induced anaphylaxis and death, which usually follow inadvertent exposures.4,5 Allergy to peanuts is an IgE-mediated, mast-cell–dependent, immediate-hypersensitivity reaction. There are several reports of the transfer of allergen-specific IgE-mediated hypersensitivity by bone marrow transplantation.6-9 We report a case of peanut allergy transmitted through combined liver-and-kidney transplantation.Keywords
This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
- Clinical study of peanut and nut allergy in 62 consecutive patients: new features and associationsBMJ, 1996
- Managing peanut allergyBMJ, 1996
- Peanut allergyClinical and Experimental Allergy, 1995
- Peripheral microchimerism in long-term cadaveric-kidney allograft recipientsThe Lancet, 1994
- Fatal and Near-Fatal Anaphylactic Reactions to Food in Children and AdolescentsNew England Journal of Medicine, 1992
- Transfer of Allergen-Specific IgE-Mediated Hypersensitivity with Allogeneic Bone Marrow TransplantationNew England Journal of Medicine, 1988
- Fatal food-induced anaphylaxisJAMA, 1988
- Atopy after bone marrow transplantation.BMJ, 1985
- Transfer of latent atopy by bone marrow transplantation? A case reportJournal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1984
- HAPTEN-SPECIFIC IgE ANTIBODY RESPONSES IN MICEThe Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1973