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REPORT OF A CASE, WITH AUTOPSY OBSERVATIONS AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

JESSE G. M. BULLOWA, M.D.; MENDEL JACOBI, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1930;46(2):306-315.

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Complications following serum therapy are relatively uncommon. Still more uncommon are reported fatalities. Park¹ estimated that such fatal reactions occur once in 70,000 cases.

Of the pathologic anatomy in cases of fatal anaphylactic shock, little has appeared in the literature. Lamson,² in 1924, was able to collect forty cases of sudden death following the injection of serum; twelve of these cases came to autopsy. Since then, one additional case with necropsy observations has been published. Recently a case in the service of one of us (J. G. M. B.) ended fatally; at necropsy changes were presented so similar to those found in experimental anaphylactic shock as to be worth recording.

REPORT OF CASE

History.

—C. S., aged 8, was first admitted to the Willard Parker Hospital on Oct. 4, 1928, with a history of cough, "running nose and eyes," and some fever for one week. On admission, she had a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the medical and pathological services of the Willard Parker Hospital for Contagious Diseases, New York, and the pathologic laboratory of the Brownsville-East New York Hospital, Brooklyn.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Dec. 24, 1929.

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