Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Hypersensitivity Reactions to Contrast Media

J Investig Allergol Clin Immunol 2016; Vol 26(3): 144-155 doi: 10.18176/jiaci.0058

Rosado Ingelmo A1, Doña Diaz I2, Cabañas Moreno R3, Moya Quesada MC4, García-Avilés C5, García Nuñez I6, Martínez Tadeo JI7, Mielgo Ballesteros R8, Ortega-Rodríguez N9, Padial Vilchez MA10, Sánchez-Morillas L11, Vila Albelda C1, Moreno Rodilla E12*, Torres Jaén MJ2*

Abstract

The objective of these guidelines is to ensure efficient and effective clinical practice. The panel of experts who produced this consensus document developed a research protocol based on a review of the literature.
The prevalence of allergic reactions to iodinated contrast media (ICM) is estimated to be 1:170 000, that is, 0.05%-0.1% of patients undergoing radiologic studies with ICM (more than 75 million examinations per year worldwide).

What is new and upcoming in the world of chronic urticaria?

Special Issue: Chronic Urticaria. Challenges, Insights and New Directions. Proceedings of the second Global Urticaria Forum, November 2015, Berlin

Volume 30, Issue Supplement S5, pages 5–6, July 2016

1. M. Maurer¹, 
2. A.M. Giménez-Arnau^2,* and
3. T. Zuberbier¹

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This supplement presents a summary of the key topics discussed during plenary sessions, workshops and debates at the second international Global Urticaria Forum, which was held in Berlin, Germany in November 2015. This interactive meeting was an excellent opportunity to present new data (both from clinical studies and real-life experience) to the medical urticaria community and to gauge opinion on remaining unmet need and unanswered questions.

Analysis of the quality of life of patients with asthma and allergic rhinitis after immunotherapy

• Postepy Dermatol Alergol
• v.33(2); 2016 Apr
• PMC4884771

Postepy Dermatol Alergol. 2016 Apr; 33(2): 134–141.

Published online 2016 May 16. doi:  10.5114/pdia.2015.48061

PMCID: PMC4884771

Małgorzata Filanowicz,1 Ewa Szynkiewicz,1 Bernadeta Cegła,1 and Zbigniew Bartuzi2

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Abstract

Aim

To assess the quality of life of Polish patients with asthma and/or allergic rhinitis before the implementation and after 30–36 months of immunotherapy.

Material and methods

Two hundred patients have been involved in the study: 101 with allergic asthma and 99 with pollinosis. In order to collect research material, the Polish versions of AQLQ (Asthma Quality of Life) and RQLQ (Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life) questionnaires have been used.

Endotypes of allergic diseases and asthma: An important step in building blocks for the future of precision medicine

Article in Press

Ioana Agache

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 Cezmi A. Akdis

Open Access

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.alit.2016.04.011

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Discoveries from basic science research in the last decade have brought significant progress in knowledge of pathophysiologic processes of allergic diseases, with a compelling impact on understanding of the natural history, risk prediction, treatment selection or mechanism-specific prevention strategies. The view of the pathophysiology of allergic diseases developed from a mechanistic approach, with a focus on symptoms and organ function, to the recognition of a complex network of immunological pathways. Several subtypes of inflammation and complex immune-regulatory networks and the reasons for their failure are now described, that open the way for the development of new diagnostic tools and innovative targeted-treatments.

MACVIA clinical decision algorithm in adolescents and adults with allergic rhinitis

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Jean Bousquet, MD, Holger J. Schünemann, MD, Peter W. Hellings, MD, Sylvie Arnavielhe, PhD, Claus Bachert, MD, Anna Bedbrook, BSc, Karl-Christian Bergmann, MD, Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich, PhD, Jan Brozek, MD, Moises Calderon, MD, G. Walter Canonica, MD, Thomas B. Casale, MD, Niels H. Chavannes, MD, Linda Cox, MD, Henry Chrystyn, PhD, Alvaro A. Cruz, MD, Ronald Dahl, MD, Giuseppe De Carlo, MD, Pascal Demoly, MD, Phillipe Devillier, MD, Gérard Dray, PhD, Monica Fletcher, MSc, Wytske J. Fokkens, MD, Joao Fonseca, MD, Sandra N. Gonzalez-Diaz, MD, Lawrence Grouse, MD, Thomas Keil, MD, Piotr Kuna, MD, Désirée Larenas-Linnemann, MD, Karin C. Lodrup Carlsen, MD, Eli O. Meltzer, MD, Jaoquim Mullol, MD, Antonella Muraro, MD, Robert N. Naclerio, MD, Susanna Palkonen, MD, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, MD, Giovanni Passalacqua, MD, David Price, MD, Dermot Ryan, MD, Boleslaw Samolinski, MD, Glenis K. Scadding, MD, Aziz Sheikh, MD, Arunas Valiulis, MD, Erkka Valovirta, MD, Samantha Walker, PhD, Magnus Wickman, MD, Arzu Yorgancioglu, MD, Torsten Zuberbier, MD on behalf of the show MASK study group*

Open Access DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2016.03.025

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The selection of pharmacotherapy for patients with allergic rhinitis (AR) depends on several factors, including age, prominent symptoms, symptom severity, control of AR, patient preferences, and cost. Allergen exposure and the resulting symptoms vary, and treatment adjustment is required. Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) might be beneficial for the assessment of disease control. CDSSs should be based on the best evidence and algorithms to aid patients and health care professionals to jointly determine treatment and its step-up or step-down strategy depending on AR control.

Relation of the Timing of Onset of Rhinitis and Cough to Asthma Attack in Children

The Kurume Medical Journal

Article ID: MS65011

 http://doi.org/10.2739/kurumemedj.MS65011

TETSU SUGIMURA¹⁾, YUKIKO OZAKI²⁾, YOSHIFUMI TANANARI³⁾, RUMI YAMAKAWA²⁾, RUMIKO HIRATA²⁾

1) Department of Pediatrics and Allergology, Sugimura Children’s Medical Clinic 2) Department of Pediatrics, Kurume University School of Medicine 3) Department of Pediatrics, Wada Children’s Clinic

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Summary: If the risk of progression to asthma could be predicted in patients with rhinitis, prevention of asthma might become possible. The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationship between the duration of rhinitis symptoms and acute asthma attacks in children with a history of asthma who were not on treatment for asthma. In 94 children with a history of asthma who were asymptomatic after completing asthma treatment, we investigated the onset and duration of nasal discharge and cough related to allergic rhinitis.

Maternal serum but not breast milk IL-5, IL-6, and IL-13 immune markers are associated with scratching among infants

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• Nelís Soto-Ramírez,
• Keith Boyd,
• Hongmei Zhang,
• Venugopal Gangur,
• Laura Goetzl and
• Wilfried KarmausEmail author

Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology201612:25

DOI: 10.1186/s13223-016-0129-x

Abstract

Background

Scratching in infants is considered to be related to early development of eczema. Little is known about the effects of maternal immune markers on scratching among infants. The objective is to compare the risks related to maternal serum immune markers (IMs) during pregnancy and IMs in breast milk for the occurrence of scratching in infants at 6 and 12 months of age.

Interactive digital interventions to promote self-management in adults with asthma: systematic review and meta-analysis

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OPEN PEER REVIEW

• Gary McLeanEmail author,
• Elizabeth Murray,
• Rebecca Band,
• Keith R. Moffat,
• Peter Hanlon,
• Anne Bruton,
• Mike Thomas,
• Lucy Yardley and
• Frances S. Mair

BMC Pulmonary MedicineBMC series – open, inclusive and trusted201616:83

DOI: 10.1186/s12890-016-0248-7

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Abstract

Background

To identify, summarise and synthesise the evidence for using interactive digital interventions to support patient self-management of asthma, and determine their impact.

Methods

Systematic review with meta-analysis. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, ERIC, Cochrane Library, DoPHER, TROPHI, Social Science Citation Index and Science Citation Index. The selection criteria requirement was studies of adults (16 years and over) with asthma, interventions that were interactive digital interventions and the comparator was usual care.