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
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.
Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) [also called chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU)], is defined as the recurrent appearance of hives, angioedema or both, without specific triggers, for 6 weeks or more.[1] CSU has a significant negative impact on patients’ health-related quality of life as well as on society and the healthcare system.[2-4] New burden of illness data from the multinational, real-world ASSURE-CSU study highlight this high unmet need in terms of both the impact of disease on individual patients and the wider socioeconomic problems.[3, 4] To optimize the patient journey and reduce this burden, a number of questions around management of CSU in the real-world clinical setting need to be answered.
The accurate diagnosis and classification of urticaria...
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