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Gómez RM, Jares E, Canonica GW, Baiardini I, Passalacqua G, Sánchez Borges M, Kaplan AP, Baena-Cagnani CE. Why a registry of Chronic Urticaria (CUR) is needed. World Allergy Organ J 2017; 10:16. [PMID: 28546849 PMCID: PMC5433157 DOI: 10.1186/s40413-017-0147-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2016] [Accepted: 03/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Chronic urticaria (CU) has a major effect on patients’ quality of life. While there have been progressive advances regarding its pathogenesis and treatment, much remains to be done. Registries of other chronic non-communicable diseases have shown many benefits, such as additional basic knowledge and management approaches to diabetes mellitus. Standards of care as well as diagnostic approaches can be elaborated and compared from different sites, using validated instruments. Registries in allergic diseases are also becoming well recognized, and the first registry on CU, accessible from SLaai’s webpage, includes parameters for identification, evaluation and management. In our vision, informatics strategies have the potential to improve care for chronic illnesses such as CU. The registry represents a valid instrument from which to obtain a sufficient sample size for epidemiological studies and/or clinical research planning, including feasibility and potential enrollment. It can also provide invaluable data for adapting guidelines to local populations, as well as diagnostic approaches and cost-effective interventions in the context of organizational efforts to improve patient care.
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- R M Gómez
- Fundación Ayre at Instituto Médico Alas, Sarmiento 771, 330-31, 4400 Salta, Argentina.,Allergy & Asthma Unit, Hospital San Bernardo, Salta, Argentina
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- Libra Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Allergy & Respiratory Diseases Clinic, University of Genova, IRCCS AOU S.Martino, Genoa, Italy
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- Allergy & Respiratory Diseases Clinic, University of Genova, IRCCS AOU S.Martino, Genoa, Italy
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- Allergy & Respiratory Diseases Clinic, University of Genova, IRCCS AOU S.Martino, Genoa, Italy
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- Allergy & Immunology Dpt, Centro Médico Docente La Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela
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- The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC USA
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Erinfolami AR, Olagunju AT, Oshodi YO, Akinbode AA, Fadipe B, Adeyemo WL. Psychological Distress and Emotional Pain Among Adult Attendees of a Dental Clinic: A Case-Control Study. Ment Illn 2016; 8:6006. [PMID: 27403272 PMCID: PMC4926031 DOI: 10.4081/mi.2016.6006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2015] [Revised: 08/09/2015] [Accepted: 08/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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We set out to carry out a case-control evaluation of psychological distress and emotional pain among adult attendees of a Nigerian dental clinic. A total of 201 subjects, made up of 101 dental patients (test group) matched with age and sex with 100 normal subjects (controls), was recruited into the study. All participants completed a designed socio-demographic questionnaire. General Health Question naire and Psyche ache Assessment Schedule were also administered to assess psychological distress based on cut-off scores ≥3 and emotional pain based on cut-off scores ≥28 respectively. The mean ages of study and control group were 33 (±12) and 36 (±13) years respectively, and both study and control groups were not significantly different in all the assessed socio-demographic parameters. Overall, 21.8% (n=22) of the subjects had psychological distress, while only 7% of the control group had psychological distress. This difference was statistically significant (P=0.003). Similarly, there was significant difference in the experience of psyche ache (unbearable psychological pain) as over a third of the dental patients (37.6%, n=38) had emotional pain, while only 13% of the controls experienced psych ache (P<0.001). In this study, the burden of psychological distress and emotional pain was many-fold in dental patients when compared with the controls.
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Lagos , Nigeria
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Meerwijk EL, Chesla CA, Weiss SJ. Psychological pain and reduced resting-state heart rate variability in adults with a history of depression. Psychophysiology 2014; 51:247-56. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2012] [Accepted: 10/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Esther L. Meerwijk
- Department of Community Health Systems; University of California; San Francisco San Francisco California USA
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- Department of Family Health Care Nursing; University of California; San Francisco San Francisco California USA
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- Department of Community Health Systems; University of California; San Francisco San Francisco California USA
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Zuberbier T, Asero R, Bindslev‐Jensen C, Walter Canonica G, Church MK, Giménez‐Arnau AM, Grattan CEH, Kapp A, Maurer M, Merk HF, Rogala B, Saini S, Sánchez‐Borges M, Schmid‐Grendelmeier P, Schünemann H, Staubach P, Vena GA, Wedi B. EAACI/GA(2)LEN/EDF/WAO guideline: management of urticaria. Allergy 2009; 64:1427-1443. [PMID: 19772513 DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2009.02178.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 359] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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This guideline, together with its sister guideline on the classification of urticaria (Zuberbier T, Asero R, Bindslev-Jensen C, Canonica GW, Church MK, Giménez-Arnau AM et al. EAACI/GA(2)LEN/EDF/WAO Guideline: definition, classification and diagnosis of urticaria. Allergy 2009;64: 1417-1426), is the result of a consensus reached during a panel discussion at the Third International Consensus Meeting on Urticaria, Urticaria 2008, a joint initiative of the Dermatology Section of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), the EU-funded network of excellence, the Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA(2)LEN), the European Dermatology Forum (EDF) and the World Allergy Organization (WAO). As members of the panel, the authors had prepared their suggestions regarding management of urticaria before the meeting. The draft of the guideline took into account all available evidence in the literature (including Medline and Embase searches and hand searches of abstracts at international allergy congresses in 2004-2008) and was based on the existing consensus reports of the first and the second symposia in 2000 and 2004. These suggestions were then discussed in detail among the panel members and with the over 200 international specialists of the meeting to achieve a consensus using a simple voting system where appropriate. Urticaria has a profound impact on the quality of life and effective treatment is, therefore, required. The recommended first line treatment is new generation, nonsedating H(1)-antihistamines. If standard dosing is not effective, increasing the dosage up to four-fold is recommended. For patients who do not respond to a four-fold increase in dosage of nonsedating H(1)-antihistamines, it is recommended that second-line therapies should be added to the antihistamine treatment. In the choice of second-line treatment, both their costs and risk/benefit profiles are most important to consider. Corticosteroids are not recommended for long-term treatment due to their unavoidable severe adverse effects. This guideline was acknowledged and accepted by the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS).
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- T. Zuberbier
- Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Charité– Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Ambulatorio di Allergologia, Clinica San Carlo, Paderno Dugnano (MI), Italy
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- Allergy Centre, Department of Dermatology, Odense University Hospital, Odense Area, Denmark
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- Allergy and Respiratory Diseases, DIMI – University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Charité– Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Hospital del Mar, IMAS, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Dermatology Centre, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK
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- Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Hannover Medical University, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Charité– Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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- Clinical Department of Internal Diseases, Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Allergy and Immunology Department, Centro Medico‐Docente La Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Hamilton, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Hamilton, Canada
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- Department of Dermatology, Johannes Gutenberg‐University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Hannover Medical University, Hannover, Germany
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Palikhe NS, Kim SH, Ye YM, Hur GY, Cho BY, Park HS. Association of CRTH2 gene polymorphisms with the required dose of antihistamines in patients with chronic urticaria. Pharmacogenomics 2009; 10:375-83. [PMID: 19290788 DOI: 10.2217/14622416.10.3.375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Chronic urticaria (CU), defined as the recurring incidence of wheals with or without angioedema for more than 6 weeks, is a common disorder associated with mast cell activation, degranulation, and histamine release. Considering the association between the CRTH2 gene and mast cells, we investigated the association of this gene polymorphism with the CU phenotype and antihistamine drug requirement in patients with CU. MATERIALS & METHODS Two groups consisting of 384 patients with CU and 231 patients as normal controls (NCs) were enrolled from the Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Ajou University Hospital, Suwon, Korea. Two polymorphisms of the CRTH2 gene, -466T>C and -129C>A were genotyped using primer extension methods. RESULTS No significant differences were detected in the genotype and allele frequencies of the two CRTH2 polymorphisms between the CU and NC groups, and no significant associations were observed with clinical parameters, such as atopy status, serum total IgE, prevalence of autoantibodies and duration of CU. However, CU patients with homozygous TT genotypes had significantly higher dose requirements of antihistamines to control the CU symptoms (164.56 +/- 115.62 vs 137.38 +/- 90.15 loratadine equivalents, mg/week) than those with the CT and CC genotypes (p = 0.025). The luciferase activity was significantly enhanced in the construct containing CRTH2 466C compared with the -466T-containing construct (p < 0.001). Co-transfection experiments with GATA-3 (300 ng) and the -466T and -466C CRTH2 alleles revealed that the CRTH2 -466T allele produced a greater increase in induction of luciferase activity than the -466C allele (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION The CRTH2 -466T>C gene polymorphism may not affect on the phenotype of CU, but contributes to the required dose of antihistamines in patients with CU.
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- Nami Shrestha Palikhe
- Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Youngtonggu Wonchon Dong San 5, Suwon, Korea
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