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European Journal of Echocardiography 2008 9(2):303; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2006.11.003
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2006. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Severe anaphylaxis to Gelofusine during a transthoracic echo bubble study

Simon W. Dubrey*, George Dahdal and Richard Grocott-Mason

Department of Cardiology, The Hillingdon Hospital, Pield Heath Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3NN, United Kingdom

Received 27 September 2006; accepted after revision 4 November 2006.

* Corresponding author. Tel: + 44 1895 279255; fax: + 44 1895 256509. E-mail address: simon.dubrey{at}thh.nhs.uk.


  Abstract

We describe a severe anaphylactic reaction to Gelofusin, used as part of a transthoracic echo study on a middle-aged woman who had suffered a prior cerebral event.

Keywords: Anaphylaxis; Gelofusine; Oedema; Bubble study


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