Original Article
15 May 2014 / 17 April 2024 by almaware
Background: Food is one of the leading causes of anaphylaxis. In the Netherlands, patients visit a general practitioner (GP) as often as an emergency department (ED) in case of an acute food allergic reaction. So far, the management of food allergic reactions by GPs has not been investigated. Therefore, we explored the management of acute […]
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Review
Currently, sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) may be performed by a number of allergen extract in different preparations but in a near future only products fulfilling the requirements from the regulatory agencies, that make mandatory a pharmaceutical quality, will be authorized. Indeed, two products with such characteristics are already available for SLIT in grass pollen allergic patients, Grazax® […]
Letter to the Editor
9 May 2014 / 23 May 2024 by almaware
9 May 2014 / 17 April 2024 by almaware
Background: Recently, it has been reported that nasal cytology in light microscopy can identify biofilms, which appear as cyan-stained “Infectious Spots”. We assessed by the same method and in the same population, the presence of biofilms in different nasal disorders, and estimated if a correlation with the functional grade of obstruction existed.Methods: Subjects suffering from […]
PubMed databases were searched for articles regarding asthma phenotypes. Asthma has long been recognized as a heterogeneous disease, with hallmark features including age of onset, pattern of severity and other clinical characteristics, but recently it is no longer considered as single disease but rather as a series of complex, overlapping individual phenotypes, and a novel […]
Hereditary angioedema due to C1-inhibitor deficiency (HAE-C1-INH) is a rare, autosomal-dominant disease. HAE-C1-INH is characterized by recurrent attacks of marked, diffuse, nonpitting and nonpruritic skin swellings, painful abdominal attacks, and laryngeal edema. The extremities and the gastrointestinal tract are most commonly affected.Swelling of the upper respiratory mucosa poses the greatest risk because death from asphyxiation […]
Editorial
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Case Report