Perioperative Anaphylaxis to Ethylene Oxide: Twenty Years after, a Diagnosis Revisited

1Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades, Service d’Anesthesie-Reanimation & SAMU de Paris, Universite Paris-Descartes, INSERM U970, Paris, France 2Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Groupe Hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere, Service d’Anesthesie-Reanimation Chirurgicale, Paris, France 3Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Hopital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Unite d’Immunologie Auto-immunite & Hypersensibilites, Paris, France 4Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Groupe Hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere, Service de Pharmacie, Paris, France 5Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades, Service de Pharmacie, Paris, France 6Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Hopital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Unite d’Immunologie Auto-immunite & Hypersensibilites, Paris & Universite Paris-Sud11, INSERM UMRS-996, Châtenay-Malabry, France 7Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Groupe Hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere, Service de Pharmacie, Paris, France 8Pole d’Anesthesie-Reanimation Chirurgicale, CHU Hopital Central, Nancy, France

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