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Can you use other iron formulations if a patient develops Stevens-Johnson Syndrome with ferumoxytol?

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If a patient develops Stevens-Johnson Syndrome with ferumoxytol, do you switch iron formulations?

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Hematology · Georgetown University School of Medicine
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I have never seen it in tens of thousands of doses so it is difficult to answer. If this is actually real, it must be due to CHO component and not Fe (that would be awful). I would use another formulation and premedicate with steroid and H2 blocker before. Do not use antihistamine.

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