Article type: Review Article Chronic urticaria is defined as a skin disease with central induration (wheal) and erythema formation around it (flare) that appears at least twice a week and remains at least for 6 weeks continually. The incidence of urticaria in children is about 0.1-3%. Most cases of chronic urticaria occur in children between 6-11 years. Autoimmune and allergy immaturity is one ...

A systemic pro-inflammatory and pro-coagulating state occurs in subjects who have both chronic urticaria and metabolic syndrome. To investigate the prevalence and clinical impact of metabolic syndrome in Korean patients with chronic urticaria, a hospital-based cross-sectional study of 131 patients was performed. Metabolic syndrome was assessed by the criteria of the National Cholesterol Educati...

INTRODUCTION The etiology of chronic urticaria is unknown in many cases. In this study, we demonstrated the presence of autoimmune antibodies in patients with chronic urticaria by using of the Autologous Serum Skin Test (ASST). METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study to detect the presence of autologous antibodies in the serum of 38 patients (25 females and 13 males) with idiopathic chro...

BACKGROUND In spite of the frequency of chronic urticaria there are very few epidemiological studies of its prevalence and distribution. OBJECTIVE We wanted to approach the real prevalence of chronic urticaria in a population-based study and to depict demographic distribution and personal perception of the disease. We also wanted to describe the frequency of acute urticaria episodes in the po...

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)...

Chronic urticaria is a distressing condition with high costs. The aim of this literature review was to assess the relative frequency of causes of chronic urticaria in childhood and to provide guidance on which laboratory tests should be performed. Using PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane databases, the literature from 1966 to 2010 (week 25) was systematically reviewed. Data from studies conducted on c...

AIM The drugs of choice in the treatment of urticaria in children are H1-antihistamines. The aim of the study was to evaluate children with urticaria and define risk factors for requirement of high-dose H1-antihistamines in children with urticaria. MATERIAL AND METHODS The medical data of children who were diagnosed as having urticaria admitted to our outpatient clinic between January 2014 an...

chronic urticaria (cu) also known as chronic idiopathic urticaria results in a lowered quality of life (qol). disease specific questionnaires are necessary to assess qol in cu patients. chronic urticaria quality of life questionnaire (cu-q2ol) is the only available and validated disease specific questionnaire in the assessment of qol in cu patients originally developed in italian language. the ...