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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Serum Sickness (Immune Complex Disease)
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Treatment, Medications, Outcome, Prognosis, Prevention, When to Refer, Reference,
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Topics Discussed: serum sickness.
Excerpt: | |  Fever, pruritic rash, arthralgias, and arthritis; nephritis in severe cases
Occurs 7–10 days following administration of an exogenous antigen (eg, heterologous gamma globulin) when specific IgG antibodies develop against the antigen Immune-complex mediated small vessel vasculitis and tissue injury |
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