Chapter 19 - Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)»Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified (T80-T88)»Other serum reactions (T80.6)
T80.6
Other serum reactions
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Serum Sickness7 drugs (7 approved)
Immune complex disease caused by the administration of foreign serum or serum proteins and characterized by fever, lymphadenopathy, arthralgia, and urticaria. When they are complexed to protein carriers, some drugs can also cause serum sickness when they act as haptens inducing antibody responses.