BACKGROUND Skin testing, correlated with patient history, is the accepted method of identifying clinically relevant aeroallergen sensitivity. Traditionally, intradermal tests are believed to be more sensitive in identifying aeroallergen sensitivity than the epicutaneous and percutaneous methods. Therefore, many allergy practitioners use the epicutaneous or percutaneous method first and, if the ...

BACKGROUND Although seasonal influenza vaccine is effective in the elderly, immune responses to vaccination are lower in the elderly than in younger adults. Strategies to optimise responses to vaccination in the elderly include using an adjuvanted vaccine or using an intradermal vaccination route. The immunogenicity of an intradermal seasonal influenza vaccine was compared with that of an adjuv...

Intradermal rabies vaccine is recommended by the World Health Organisation, but not all countries, including England, follow this recommendation. A group of 12 adults in England previously given pre-exposure intradermal rabies vaccine were considered to be non-immune to rabies because their rabies antibody titres were known to be less than 0.5 IU/mL. A cohort study examined the immunizing effec...

The preparation and application of toxoplasmin for intradermal testing are described. The persistences of sensibility to toxoplasmin and the specificity of the test are discussed.

Heparin has been widely used for intradialytic anticoagulation since the 1940s. Heparin induced anaphylaxis can be life threatening, mandating early recognition and intervention. However, due to its relative rarity many physicians remain unaware. We report the case of a 70-year-old woman requiring dialysis, who developed recurrent anaphylaxis to intradialytic heparin. We describe a systematic a...

background: considering the dramatic increasing rate of diabetes and consequently its related complications, most importantly diabetic peripheral neuropathy (dpn), challenges regarding proper treatment of dpn and its effect on the quality-of-life and care of diabetic patients, the aim of this current study is to evaluate the effect of intradermal botulinum toxin type a (btx-a) injections on pai...

Intradermal melanoma on a pre-existing intradermal nevus is an exceptional finding. Since 1961, a total of 11 cases have been published; none of these were in the Spanish medical literature (PubMed, December 27, 2014). We report the case of a 42-year-old man who underwent treatment at his health center for a lesion in the center of his forehead. In the clinical history, the lesion was described...

BACKGROUND Enhanced influenza vaccines are needed to provide improved protection for elderly individuals. The intradermal vaccination route was hypothesized to provide immunogenicity superior to that provided by the intramuscular vaccination route. METHODS In a multicenter, randomized study, 1107 volunteers >60 years of age received intradermal trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine containi...