Serum Sickness
Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = 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.,Created For = LHSA-Dott
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
PR2.1713, 1943-1945
Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1713
Scope and Contents
Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: spinal cord lesion; serum sickness; and syringomyelia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
Dates:
1943-1945