Review
7 May 2018 / 17 April 2024 by almaware
Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) is an under-recognized and frequently misdiagnosed non-IgE mediated food allergy syndrome. Affected in-fants show gastrointestinal symptoms few hours after ingestion of the incriminating food. Pathophysiology of FPIES has not yet been clearly defined and needs further characterization. The common allergy tests are not helpful for this disor-der and tests for […]
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Case Report
1 March 2018 / 17 April 2024 by almaware
Piperacillin is a beta-lactam antibiotic of penicillin family. Some penicillins were report-ed as occupational diseases cause, but piperacillin anaphylaxis with occupational sensi-tization is rare. We describe the case of a female nurse with recurrent anaphylaxis in last few months without apparent cause, only in work environment. Latex allergy was excluded after negative latex glove provocation. […]
Original Article
Background. Anaphylaxis is an acute, potentially fatal, multi-organ allergic reac-tion. Our aim was to characterize the population with food induced anaphylaxis followed over a one-year period. Methods. Retrospective analysis of clinical files of patients with food anaphylaxis observed in our food allergy consultation dur-ing 2016. Results. Sixty-two patients were included. In the pediatric group, the […]
Recurrent infections seem to be a common complaint in children who are referred to general practitioners’ and pediatricians’ offices. Detection of primary immunodeficiencies (PID) etiology is very important for achieving appropriate diagnosis and treatment of these patients. The absence of appropriate treatment could lead to subsequent complica-tions, in a hospital inpatient and/or outpatient settings. This […]
Objective. To document the test results of patients referred to our clinic for testing with local anesthetics (LAs) in real life conditions and provide data related to the ne-cessity of these tests. Methods. All consecutive subjects who were referred to be eval-uated for LA allergy during a two-year follow up were included in the analysis. […]
Parthenium dermatitis is a chronic immuno-inflammatory, distressing skin disease and is mediated by activated T-lymphocyte which is primarily manifested on the exposed sites of the face, neck, hand and flexures. Parthenium hysterophorus is ubiquitous, hence it is diffi-cult to avoid the aero-allergenic antigen parthenin , responsible for the contact derma-titis. The pathogenesis of parthenium dermatitis […]
16 February 2018 / 17 April 2024 by almaware
The Study Group on Allergology of the Italian Society of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (SIPMeL) and the Associazione Italiana degli Allergologi e Immunologi Territoriali e Ospedalieri (AAIITO) developed the present recommendations on the diagnosis of allergic diseases based on the use of molecular allergenic components, whose purpose is to provide the pathologists and the […]
11 January 2018 / 17 April 2024 by almaware
We report the case of a 38-year-old man who was bitten several times during his life by a tick. He didn’t report any previous history of anaphylaxis after the ingestion of red meat. The serum specific IgE showed positivity to alpha-Gal. The proximity of the bits didn’t increase the titer of IgE antibodies to alpha-gal. […]
We report a case of a previously healthy 24-year-old man with a 3-month history of gastrointestinal symptoms during exercise and also few minutes after the ingestion of cow’s milk (CM) without exercise. He reported the ingestion of a blend of hydrolyzed whey and casein proteins for bodybuilding for the last 2 years. The in vivo […]