Article
Prominence of slow acetylator phenotype among patients with sulfonamide hypersensitivity reactions.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 Jan 1991
Rieder M J, Shear N H, Kanee A, Tang B K, Spielberg S P
Abstract excerpt
Delayed hypersensitivity reactions are among the most severe adverse effects of the sulfonamides in current clinical use. These reactions appear to occur because of differences in the metabolism and detoxification of reactive metabolites of the sulfonamides. N-Acetylation is a major metabolic pathway for the sulfonamides. Slow acetylation phenotype might be a risk factor for the development of these reactions. We...
Topics
- Acetylation
- Adolescent
- Caffeine
- Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
- Drug Hypersensitivity
- Female
- Humans
- Hypersensitivity, Delayed
- Male
- Phenotype
- Sulfonamides
