BACKGROUND Chronic urticaria affects patients by interfering with their daily activities, damaging their self-esteem and negatively affecting their interpersonal relationships. Healthcare professionals may underestimate the impact of the condition on patients' quality of life. OBJECTIVES To evaluate quality of life using one generic and one disease-specific health-related quality of life inst...

Background Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria is considered to be an autoimmune phenomenon in half of the total cases. Autologous serum skin test a simple screening for presence auto-antibodies chronic urticaria. Significant impairment quality life have been observed autologous positive There are limited literatures on spontaneous urticaria, and associated Dermatology Life Quality Index Nepal till d...

BACKGROUND An association between class I and II alleles of the major histocompatibility complex and idiopathic chronic urticaria has previously been observed in different populations, but there are still no studies on Brazilian populations in this regard. OBJECTIVE The involvement of the major histocompatibility complex classes I and II (loci A, B and DR) in Brazilian patients with idiopathi...

We appreciated the paper by Levy et al published in this journal in June 2003. A number of the cases of chronic urticaria in children appear to be of unknown aetiology, and experiences such as the one reported by the authors indicate an autoimmune origin. In our opinion the model of association between thyroiditis and chronic urticaria may apply to the association between coeliac disease and ch...

BACKGROUND: Chronic urticaria is a skin disease characterized by the appearance of itchy weals and/or angioedema for 6 or more weeks. subdivided into chronic spontaneous urticaria, which occurs due to an unknown cause, and inducible as result exposure various physical factors (water, cold, heat, pressure, mechanical irritation), can occur simultaneously independently each other. Omalizumab, ant...

This evidence- and consensus-based guideline was developed following the methods recommended by Cochrane Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development Evaluation (GRADE) working group. The conference held on 1 December 2016. It is a joint initiative Dermatology Section European Academy Allergology Clinical Immunology (EAACI), EU-founded network excellence, Global Allergy Asthma Network (GA...

We have analysed the relationship of blood eosinophil count and serum eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) levels in patients with acute and chronic idiopathic urticaria. The ECP levels and eosinophil counts were measured in the peripheral blood of 15 patients with acute urticaria, 25 with chronic idiopathic urticaria and 10 normal healthy subjects. Blood eosinophil counts and serum ECP levels inc...

INTRODUCTION The term "urticaria" refers to any of a group of distinct skin conditions that are characterized by itchy, wheal-and-flare skin reactions (hives). In spontaneous urticaria, the most common type, the hives seem to arise without provocation. METHODS Selective review of the literature, including current guidelines. RESULTS Spontaneous urticaria is divided into acute (lasting less ...

Background Treatment of chronic urticaria consists of antihistamines as the first-line treatment. For more severe symptoms, combinations can be necessary as well as dose augmentations. The recent guidelines suggest the possibility of using omalizumab in resistant cases. We treated 2 patients with cold-urticaria (CO), 1 with cholinergic urticaria(CH) and 11 with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CS...

In the past few years there have been significant advances which have changed the face of chronic urticaria. In this review, we aim to update physicians about clinically relevant advances in the classification, diagnosis and management of chronic urticaria that have occurred in recent years. These include clarification of the terminology used to describe and classify urticaria. We also detail t...