TY - JOUR
T1 - Dilemma in the diagnosis of povidone-iodine hypersensitivity
AU - Patil, Navin
AU - Karthik Rao, N.
AU - Avinash, A.
AU - Kunder, Sushil Kiran
AU - Hande, Handattu Manjunatha
AU - Ahmed, Talha
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Povidone-iodine is a commonly used antiseptic solution in surgical practice. Almost every patient who needs a minor or a major surgical procedure (sometimes, a medical procedure too) gets exposed to this antiseptic. Even though the use of this antiseptic is widespread, the number of cases reporting hypersensitivity to it is meagre. This case report highlights a case of povidone-iodine - induced hypersensitivity, which presented a great difficulty in diagnosis, due to the usage of other drugs that could have been more likely causes for this hypersensitivity.
AB - Povidone-iodine is a commonly used antiseptic solution in surgical practice. Almost every patient who needs a minor or a major surgical procedure (sometimes, a medical procedure too) gets exposed to this antiseptic. Even though the use of this antiseptic is widespread, the number of cases reporting hypersensitivity to it is meagre. This case report highlights a case of povidone-iodine - induced hypersensitivity, which presented a great difficulty in diagnosis, due to the usage of other drugs that could have been more likely causes for this hypersensitivity.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84958180880
SN - 0972-5997
VL - 14
JO - Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences
JF - Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences
IS - 4
M1 - 19
ER -