Abstract
Biologics are an innovative class of drugs that can selectively influence immunological
responses at a cellular level. Although their use is usually restricted to some specific diseases, such as
autoimmune pathologies and tumors, their “off-label” administration has increased widely in the last
years. Drug treatment may induce hypersensitivity reactions which currently lack any gold standard
therapy but maybe a future field of application for biologics. Agents like anti-IgE (Omalizumab) and
Tumor Necrosis Factor-α inhibitors might be used in immediate-type and cell-mediated hypersensitivity
caused by medications, respectively, and the first trials in that direction are being reported in the
literature. In fact, the refined immunological mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of drug hypersensitivity
might respond successfully to this new class of drugs.
Keywords:
Biologicals, drug hypersensitivity, omalizumab, infliximab, etanercept, mepolizumab anaphylaxis, drug-induced
cutaneous adverse reactions.
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