Severe adverse events following benzathine penicillin G injection for rheumatic heart disease prophylaxis: cardiac compromise more likely than anaphylaxis

OBJECTIVE: Secondary prophylaxis through long-term antibiotic administration is essential to prevent the progression of acute rheumatic fever to rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Benzathine penicillin G (BPG) has been shown to be the most efficacious antibiotic for this purpose; however, adverse events...

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Veröffentlicht in:Heart Asia
Hauptverfasser: Marantelli, Shannon, Hand, Robert, Carapetis, Jonathan, Beaton, Andrea, Wyber, Rosemary
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6590992/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31297163
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartasia-2019-011191
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