Hypersensitivity Reactions
Serious and sometimes fatal hypersensitivity reactions, with multiple organ involvement, have occurred with abacavir.
Patients who carry the HLA-B*5701 allele are at higher risk of a hypersensitivity reaction to abacavir; although, hypersensitivity reactions have occurred in patients who do not carry the HLA-B*5701 allele (See warnings and precautions).
Abacavir is contraindicated in patients with a prior hypersensitivity reaction to abacavir and in HLA-B*5701-positive patients (see contraindications, warnings and precautions). All patients should be screened for the HLA-B*5701 allele prior to initiating therapy with abacavir or reinitiation of therapy with abacavir, unless patients have a previously documented HLA-B*5701 allele assessment. discontinue abacavir immediately if a hypersensitivity reaction is suspected, regardless of HLA-B*5701 status and even when other diagnoses are possible (see contraindications, warnings and precautions)
Following a hypersensitivity reaction to abacavir, never restart abacavir or any other abacavir-containing product because more severe symptoms, including death can occur within hours. Similar severe reactions have also occurred rarely following the reintroduction of abacavir-containing products in patients who have no history of abacavir hypersensitivity (see warnings and precautions).
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