Complement activation-related pseudoallergy (CARPA) is a hypersensitivity reaction occurring upon intravenous administration of numerous liposomal therapeutics, other nonbiological complex drugs and biologicals. It has a complex molecular and cellular mechanism that involves the production, actions and interactions of numerous vasoactive mediators in blood, including thromboxane A 2 (TXA 2 ). This short review focuses on the latter eicosanoid: its role in CARPA, effects underlying some of the symptoms and experimental evidence for its rate-limiting role in pulmonary hypertension in pigs. Animal experiments and recent clinical observations suggest that the cyclooxygenase blocker indomethacin may represent an effective new approach to prevent liposome-induced CARPA, lending clinical relevance to better understand the involvement of TXA2 and other eicosanoids in this adverse immune effect.
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