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Confirmed penicillin allergy among patients receiving benzathine penicillin prophylaxis for acute rheumatic fever
A. Kayaa, M. Erkoçoğlua, O.G. Şenkonb, F.K. Ekicic, M. Toyrana, İ.İ. Çetinc, C.N. Kocabaşa,
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a Ankara Children's Hematology Oncology Education and Research Hospital, Department of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Ankara, Turkey
b Ankara Children's Hematology Oncology Education and Research Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Ankara, Turkey
c Ankara Children's Hematology Oncology Education and Research Hospital, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey
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is the major cause of acquired heart disease among children and adolescents&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8&#44;9</span></a> and a repository form of penicillin&#44; benzathine penicillin G&#44; remains the treatment of choice for secondary prevention of the disease&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9&#44;10</span></a></p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Recurrences due to inadequate penicillin prophylaxis are responsible for chronic valvular lesions requiring surgery&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> The fear of a severe allergic reaction is the leading cause of discontinuing prophylaxis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> Most children reporting allergy-like reactions to beta-lactams are not allergic to beta-lactams and it has been shown that after further diagnostic work up the true frequency of beta-lactam allergy was 3&#46;3&#37; among children with suspected drug allergy&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> There are not enough data on the real frequency of proven penicillin allergy among children on penicillin prophylaxis for ARF&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In this study we aimed to reveal the frequency of adverse events and real allergic reactions to benzathine Penicillin among children who are followed in our paediatric cardiology clinic with a diagnosis of ARF&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Materials and methods</span><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The patient files of children followed with a diagnosis of ARF between January 2005 and December 2011 were reviewed for an immediate or non-immediate allergic reaction to prophylactic penicillin treatment&#46; Patients with a recorded reaction to penicillin were invited for participation in the study and were evaluated retrospectively&#46; All patients enrolled in the study fulfilled the Jones criteria for diagnosis of rheumatic fever&#58; Major criteria include&#58; &#40;1&#41; carditis&#59; &#40;2&#41; polyarthritis&#59; &#40;3&#41; chorea&#59; &#40;4&#41; erythema marginatum&#59; and &#40;5&#41; subcutaneous nodules&#46; Minor criteria include&#58; &#40;1&#41; fever&#59; &#40;2&#41; arthralgia&#59; &#40;3&#41; previous rheumatic fever or rheumatic heart disease&#59; &#40;4&#41; leucocytosis&#59; elevated eritrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein&#59; and &#40;5&#41; prolonged P&#8211;R interval on electrocardiogram&#46; A firm diagnosis requires that two major or one major and two minor criteria are satisfied&#44; in addition to evidence of recent streptococcal infection&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> Benzathine Penicillin G had been given intramuscularly once every three weeks&#44; 0&#46;6 million unit for children under 27<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>kg and 1&#46;2 million unit for children over 27<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>kg until they had a reaction to the drug&#46; Penicillin treatment had been terminated after the reaction&#46; The number of injections was calculated according to the follow up period until the reaction&#46; Median follow up period was 24 months and ranged between 12 and 36 months&#46; Detailed history of the drug reaction was recorded both from the patient files and from the patients and their parents&#46; Skin tests &#40;prick and intradermal&#41; and provocation test was performed to patients who had suspected allergic reactions&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14&#44;15</span></a></p><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Skin tests</span><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Tests were performed using penicillin G &#40;10&#44;000<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>U&#47;ml&#41;&#44; benzylpenicilloyl polylysine&#40;PPL<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#174;</span>&#41; &#40;5<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#215;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>10<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8722;5</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mmol&#47;L&#41;&#44; 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and an increase in diameter greater than 3<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mm was considered positive&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17</span></a></p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Provocation test</span><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Finally&#44; both for immediate and non-immediate reactions&#44; a provocation test was performed if all the other investigations were inconclusive and if the provocation test was not contra-indicated&#46; ENDA guidelines on skin and drug provocation tests were carefully respected&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17&#44;18</span></a> Oral provocation was performed with 50&#44;000<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>U&#44; 100&#44;000<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>U and 250&#44;000<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>U penicillin V suspensions at 20<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>min intervals&#46; If there was no reaction during oral provocation&#44; benzathine penicillin was administered intramuscularly &#40;0&#46;6 million unit for children under 27<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>kg and 1&#46;2 million unit for children over 27<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>kg&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The study was approved by the local ethics committee &#40;Approval number&#58; 2012-018&#41;&#46; Informed consent was taken from parents of patients for participation in the study&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Results</span><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In total 535 children with a diagnosis of ARF were analysed for the study&#46; Mean age of patients was 10&#46;8<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#177;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>2&#46;3 years &#40;5&#8211;16&#41; and 46&#37; 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This patient had had urticaria after her third injection and she had urticaria again after intramuscular injection during the provocation test&#46; She was diagnosed to have immediate type hypersensitivity reaction to penicillin &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table 1</a>&#41;&#46; According to these results&#44; 0&#46;18&#37; &#40;1&#47;535&#41; of the patients had immediate type hypersensitivity reaction to penicillin and allergic reaction was positive in 0&#46;0056&#37; &#40;1&#47;17&#44;641&#41; of all injections&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Eight of 11 patients continued to have prophylaxis with benzathine penicillin without any allergic reaction during subsequent penicillin injections&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Discussion</span><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Eleven of our 535 ARF patients were suspected to have allergic reactions after 17&#44;641 penicillin injections but only one &#40;0&#46;18&#37;&#41; was diagnosed with immediate type hypersensitivity reaction to penicillin after detailed evaluation&#46; All patients with negative results during allergy testing continued their benzathine penicillin prophylaxis without adverse events&#46; Even the patient with a history suggesting anaphylaxis tested negative with skin test and oral provocation and did not have any allergic reaction during subsequent penicillin injections&#46;</p><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In an international study undertaken in 11 countries including 1790 adults and children having rheumatic fever&#44; allergic reactions to penicillin were reported as 3&#46;2&#37; &#40;57&#47;1790&#41; in a 3&#46;4 year period&#46; Anaphylaxis was present in 0&#46;2&#37; of patients and there was not any anaphylactic reaction among patients less than 12 years of age&#46; The risk of fatal anaphylaxis was reported as 1&#47;32&#44;000 injections in that study&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a> In a smaller study from Taiwan&#44; 10 of 171 rheumatic fever patients &#40;5&#46;8&#37;&#41; were reported to have allergic reactions after benzathine penicillin injection&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> In accordance with these data&#44; 2&#37; of our patients had had suspected allergic reactions&#46;Although commonly reported&#44; most patients who have a history of a prior reaction to penicillin are not found to be allergic to penicillin upon skin testing&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a> In our study only one of 11 patients with suspected allergic reaction was determined to have proven immediate type hypersensitivity reaction to penicillin&#46; Overall&#44; penicillin allergy was established in 0&#46;18&#37; of our ARF patients who were on prophylaxis with benzathine penicillin&#46; Allergic evaluation with skin tests and oral provocation was not performed in the aforementioned studies about penicillin allergy among ARF patients&#46; To our knowledge&#44; this is the first study giving data on proven penicillin allergy among children with ARF&#46; Our data suggest that the frequency of penicillin allergy is very much lower than suspected among children on penicillin prophylaxis for ARF&#46;</p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">One of the reasons for ceasing prophylaxis with penicillin is the suspicion that longer duration of penicillin treatment can increase the risk of allergy&#46; The frequency of allergic reactions to beta-lactam antibiotics are reported to be 1&#8211;10&#37;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21</span></a> Weiss et al&#46; reported a frequency of 2&#46;24&#37; in patients who received short term treatment with benzathine penicillin&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">22</span></a> Thus&#44; according to our results and the data mentioned above&#44; the frequency of allergic reactions among patients having long-term or short-term penicillin treatment seems to be similar&#46; In an early study of benzathine penicillin prophylaxis for rheumatic fever&#44; allergic reaction rates of patients receiving long term benzathine penicillin prophylaxis for ARF were similar to patients without rheumatic fever who receive short-term treatment with parenteral penicillin&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a> Penicillin prophylaxis is important in the prevention of recurrences in ARF&#58; The recurrence rate was 4&#37; for our patients on regular penicillin prophylaxis&#44; compared to 65&#46;2 among patients who were incompatible with treatment&#46; In another study&#44; rheumatic fever recurred in eight &#40;0&#46;45&#37;&#41; of 1790 patients while on regular prophylaxis compared with 11 &#40;11&#46;5&#37;&#41; of 96 who were not&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a> The remarkable increase of the recurrence rate among patients without regular penicillin prophylaxis emphasizes the importance of proper evaluation of penicillin allergy&#46;</p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Avoidance of penicillin&#44; based on self-reported allergic history alone often leads to the use of an alternate antibiotic with greater cost or side effect profile or treatment failure&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a> Macrolide group antibiotics are commonly preferred for the treatment and prophylaxis for group A streptococcus with a fear of severe allergic reactions but macrolide resistance in group A Streptococcus has been well documented in several countries&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">24</span></a></p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In conclusion&#44; allergic reactions to penicillin in patients with a history of rheumatic fever and under prophylaxis with benzathine penicillin are rare&#44; and are no more frequent than in patients without rheumatic fever who receive short courses of parenteral penicillin for other indications&#46; Penicillin prophylaxis is of utmost importance to decrease recurrences of ARF and only a minority of the patients with suspected reactions after injection have real penicillin allergy&#46; Consequently&#44; penicillin prophylaxis should not be given up without proper evaluation of drug allergy&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Ethical disclosures</span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Protection of human subjects and animals in research</span><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We declare that the procedures followed were in accordance with the regulations of the responsible Clinical Research Ethics Committee and in accordance with those of the World Medical Association and the Helsinki Declaration&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Patients&#8217; data protection</span><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We declare that they have followed the protocols of their work centre on the publication of patient data and that all the patients included in the study have received sufficient information and have given their informed consent in writing to participate in that study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Right to privacy and informed consent</span><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors have obtained the informed consent of the patients mentioned in the article&#46; The author for correspondence is in possession of this document&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0060" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Conflict of interest</span><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">All of the authors have no conflicts of interest in the manuscript&#46;</p></span></span>"
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        "resumen" => "<span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Background</span><p id="spar0005" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Beta-lactam antibiotics are the most frequent drugs prescribed in children worldwide&#46; Acute rheumatic fever &#40;ARF&#41; is the major cause of acquired heart disease among children and adolescents&#46; Recurrences due to inadequate penicillin prophylaxis are responsible for chronic valvular lesions requiring surgery&#46; The fear of a severe allergic reaction is the leading cause of discontinuing prophylaxis&#46;</p> <span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Objective</span><p id="spar0010" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">In this study&#44; we aimed to reveal the frequency of adverse events and real allergic reactions to benzathine penicillin among children who are followed in our paediatric cardiology clinic with a diagnosis of ARF&#46;</p> <span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Materials methods</span><p id="spar0015" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">The children who were followed with a diagnosis of ARF between January 2005 and December 2011 were searched for a history of penicillin allergy&#46; Patients with a positive history were evaluated in our paediatric allergy clinic&#46; Skin tests and provocation tests were performed with parental consent&#46;</p> <span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Results</span><p id="spar0020" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">In total 535 children with a diagnosis of ARF were analysed for the study&#46; Median follow up period was 24 months &#40;12&#8211;36&#41; &#91;median &#40;&#37;25&#8211;75&#41;&#93;&#46; Eleven of our 535 &#40;11&#47;17&#46;641 injection&#41; ARF patients were suspected to have allergic reactions after 17&#46;641 penicillin injections but only one &#40;0&#46;18&#37;&#41; was diagnosed to have penicillin allergy after detailed evaluation&#46;</p> <span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Conclusion</span><p id="spar0025" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Our data suggest that the frequency of penicillin allergy is much lower than suspected among children on penicillin prophylaxis for ARF&#46; Consequently&#44; penicillin prophylaxis should not be given up without proper evaluation of drug allergy&#46;</p>"
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¿Es usted profesional sanitario apto para prescribir o dispensar medicamentos?

Are you a health professional able to prescribe or dispense drugs?

Você é um profissional de saúde habilitado a prescrever ou dispensar medicamentos