AMA Mohammed J. Autologous serum therapy reduces the symptoms and antihistamine burden in patients with chronic urticaria. Advances Dermatology Allergology/Postępy Dermatologii i Alergologii. 2023;40(3):398-401. doi:10.5114/ada.2023.129009. APA Mohammed, (2023). Alergologii, 40(3), 398-401. https://doi.org/10.5114/ada.2023.129009 Chicago Jinan Q. 2023. "Autologous urticaria". Alergologii 40 (3)...

INTRODUCTION Neutrophilic urticaria, described by Winkelmann in 1985, has yet to be completely defined and its clinical significance is poorly understood. Nevertheless, recent publications suggest that it could be a marker for rheumatic disease. The primary objective of this study was to compare the prevalence of rheumatic disease in 2 groups of patients with urticaria: those with conventional ...

BACKGROUND Chronic urticaria is defined as repeated episodes of wheals lasting for 6 weeks or longer. Nowadays, the role of vitamin D in various chronic diseases is a matter of great interest, but limited data is available on the vitamin D status in patients with chronic urticaria. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between vitamin D status and clinical chara...

OBJECTIVES After participating in the CME activity, primary care physicians should be able to: 1. Describe the clinical and histopathological differences between chronic urticaria and acute urticaria 2. Describe the leading identifiable causes of chronic urticaria 3. Understand how to perform diagnostic workup of chronic urticaria 4. Understand the available medical treatments of chronic urticaria

BACKGROUND/AIM Urticaria is a vascular skin reaction characterized with papules and plaques. Neopterin is accepted as an immunologic marker and an indicator of activation of the immune system. Homocysteine and asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) are the markers of increased vascular resistance. Alteration in vascular resistance has a role in the pathogenesis of urticaria. We aimed to investigate...

This guideline, together with its sister guideline on the management of urticaria [Zuberbier T, Asero R, Bindslev-Jensen C, Canonica GW, Church MK, Giménez-Arnau AM et al. EAACI/GA(2)LEN/EDF/WAO Guideline: Management of urticaria. Allergy, 2009; 64:1427-1443] is the result of a consensus reached during a panel discussion at the 3rd International Consensus Meeting on Urticaria, Urticaria 2008, a...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in satisfaction with life and coping strategies between patients with acute and chronic urticaria. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Sixty patients with urticaria were divided into 2 groups after 6 weeks of standardized dermatology treatment (33 patients with acute and 27 patients with chronic urticaria). At baseline, all patients answere...

BACKGROUND Penicillin allergy is the most commonly reported drug allergy and often presents with cutaneous symptoms. Other common diagnoses, such as chronic urticaria, may be falsely attributed to penicillin allergy. Because chronic urticaria is fairly common in the general population, evaluation of its prevalence in patients with self-reported penicillin allergy was of interest. Similarly, the...

Chronic urticaria is defined as episodic or daily hives lasting for at least 6 weeks and impairs quality of life. Two main subtypes include chronic idiopathic (spontaneous) urticaria and inducible (physical) urticaria, but some patients have urticarial vasculitis. "Autoimmune chronic urticaria" implies the presence of histamine releasing or mast cell activating autoantibodies to IgE or FcϵRI, t...

Results Serology for hepatitis B was found to be positive in 8 patients (3.38%) in the acute spontaneous urticaria group, in 9 patients (5.35%) in the chronic spontaneous urticaria group and in 5 subjects (2.27%) in the control group. Antibodies to HCV were identified in 3 patients (1.27%) with acute spontaneous urticaria, in 4 patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria (2.38%) and in one subj...