Original Article
28 May 2014 / 17 April 2024 by almaware
Background: Inhaled combined therapy improves the pulmonary function in asthmatic patients. The effect on the airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) and the efficacy of different pharmacological schedules is not well clarified on adolescent asthmatics. Objective: Evaluate the responses to different combined inhaled therapies in adolescent asthmatics and study its impact on exercise induced AHR. Methods: Basal lung […]
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Background: The worldwide prevalence of allergic diseases such as rhinitis, asthma, and atopic dermatitis is continuously increasing, while other allergic disorders such as urticaria and angioedema are less investigated.We performed a population study evaluating the prevalence of any kind of allergic disorders. Methods: The entire population of 7,201 inhabitants of Cotignola (Ravenna, Italy) was surveyed […]
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Case Report
In this paper, the transfer of IgE-mediated food allergy by means of autologous stem cell transplantation in a 24-years old male patient is reported.
The authors describe an unusual case of LTP allergy. A 35 years old patient presented repeated episodes of angiooedema after food intake and complained 10 years ago of contact urticaria and rhinoconjunctivitis when exposed to cannabis leaves and to marijuana smoke. The suspected responsible foods, such as wheat flour in bread, are known to contain […]
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The Allergology Hospital Network and Regional Register for Severe Allergic Reactions (Regional Observatory) is the Piemonte Health Authority new challenge. It satisfied the need to promote and monitor the best practice among a variegated pool of specialists and to define both state of the art and evolution of efficiency and efficacy of standard working process. […]
Background: In birch pollen-allergic patients the occurrence of clinically relevant crossreactivity to plant-derived foods is clearly related with the level of birch-specific IgE. In profilin-hypersensitive patients this has not been investigated so far. Objective: To investigate whether the levels of profilin IgE are predictive of the development of food allergy in hypersensitive patients. Methods: IgE […]
Background: Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) with monomeric carbamylated allergoid proved to be well tolerated, safe and effective in patients with respiratory allergy. Standard administration regimens are expected to require a long time before clinical benefit can be appreciated. We investigated whether pre-seasonal and perennial regimens differently affect the clinical efficacy of grass pollen SLIT. Methods: Adult […]
Background: The micro-array techniques for the detection of specific IgE has improved the diagnostic procedures for allergic diseases. This method also allows to define sensitisation profiles from an epidemiological point of view.We studied the sensitisation pattern in a population of polysensitized patients with respiratory allergy, living in a restricted geographical area in the north-west Italy. […]
The appropriateness of house dust mite specific immunotherapy in patients allergic to shrimps still remains unclear. We present a clinical case as an immunological model for the strong sensitization to tropomyosin with symptoms of anaphylaxis due to shrimps and coexisting asthma due to house dust mite. The improvement in respiratory symptoms for house dust mite […]