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Urticaria

 
 
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Disease relevance of Urticaria

 

Psychiatry related information on Urticaria

  • Before the onset of urticaria, there were changes in the life-style and considerable stress in daily life as well as exposure to an allergen [6].
  • The response of both the urticaria and panic disorder to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants may suggest a common pathogenic factor involving serotoninergic mechanisms [7].
 

High impact information on Urticaria

 

Chemical compound and disease context of Urticaria

 

Biological context of Urticaria

 

Anatomical context of Urticaria

  • Ionophore stimulation of aliquots of the same leukocytes used for anti-IgE challenge demonstrated that the urticaria patients' basophils were capable of releasing normal amounts of histamine [23].
  • These data indicate that chronic urticaria patients have a (acquired?) defect in leukocyte histamine release that occurs after the anti-IgE-IgE interaction, but before the actual (second-stage) release process, and that is comparable to the phenomenon of desensitization [23].
  • Treatment with oral medroxyprogesterone resulted in remission of urticaria and a decrease in eosinophil counts [24].
  • Antihistamine use alone may be unsuccessful in urticaria in which polymorphonuclear neutrophils predominate; frequently, the addition of agents that alter polymorphonuclear neutrophil function, such as colchicine or dapsone, is required [25].
  • BACKGROUND: Previous studies have demonstrated infiltration of eosinophils, neutrophils, monocytes, and T cells in the skin of patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU), suggesting a possible T(H)2-type cytokine pathology analogous to the allergen-induced skin late-phase reaction (LPR) [26].
 

Gene context of Urticaria

 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Urticaria

  • A patient receiving adjuvant chemoimmunotherapy for breast carcinoma developed urticaria secondary to cyclophosphamide, one of the drugs of the chemotherapy regimen [31].
  • During evaluation she repeatedly developed generalized punctate urticaria, pruritus, palpitations, and headaches after warm baths or exercise, and she had a positive methacholine skin test [32].
  • This double-blind study evaluated the safety and efficacy of astemizole in the treatment of chronic idiopathic urticaria (more than or equal to 3 months) [33].
  • In a screening of 271 sera, IL-1 alpha BF was detected in 17/98 normal subjects and was not more frequent in several control groups of patients, except in patients with Schnitzler's syndrome (fever, chronic urticaria, bone pain, and monoclonal IgM paraprotein) (6/9; p less than 0.005) [34].
  • BACKGROUND: Approximately 35% to 40% of patients with chronic urticaria possess a circulating antibody directed to the alpha subunit of the high-affinity type I IgE receptor (FcepsilonRI), which is detectable by using histamine release assays or immunoblotting [35].

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