title: Therapeutic plasma exchange: a second-line treatment for brodifacoum poisoning following an anaphylactoid reaction to vitamin K.
abstract: Vitamin K1 is the first-line therapy to brodifacoum poisoning. Anaphylactoid reactions may occur anytime during intravenous administration of vitamin K1 injection. Vitamin K1 must be ceased when anaphylactoid reactions emerge, and therapeutic plasma exchange could be a second-line option.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics West China Second University Hospital/Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Disease of Women and Children Ministry of Education Sichuan University Chengdu 610041 China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics West China Second University Hospital/Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Disease of Women and Children Ministry of Education Sichuan University Chengdu 610041 China.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Qiu
keywords: Anaphylactoid reactions; Brodifacoum poisoning; therapeutic plasma exchange; vitamin K1