BACKGROUND Sweating can worsen atopic dermatitis (AD). The purpose of this work was to study the associations between reactivity to autologous sweat and the clinical severity of AD as well as investigate the possible wheal-inducing factors of sweat. METHODS Intracutaneous skin tests with autologous sweat were performed on 50 AD patients and 24 control subjects. In skin biopsies, tryptase and ...

Received September 29, 2011, Revised December 12, 2011, Accepted for publication December 14, 2011 Corresponding author: Teoman Erdem, M.D., Department of Dermatology, Sakarya University Medical Faculty, 54187, Korucuk, Sakarya, Turkey. Tel: 90-264-295-7276, Fax: 90-264-205-6629, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attri...

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 The majority of chronic urticaria cases are chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU) with no specific identifiable etiology. The role of autoantibodies in such cases remains controversial. OBJECTIVE This study determined the positivity rate of autologous serum tests in CIU patients. METHODS This study was performed on 30 patients with CIU and 30 individuals without any systemic or derm...