Differential diagnosis of eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis.

abstract：:Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that causes significant morbidity in affected individuals. It is characterized by dysregulated immune responses that consist of an increased systemic Th2 response and a combination of Th2 and Th1 responses in the skin lesions. In this article, we review factors ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Ong PY,Leung DY

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasal polyposis is the end result of a variety of pathologic processes. The aims of treatment are to relieve nasal blockage, restore olfaction, and improve sinus drainage. Treating any accompanying rhinitis is also an aim, which requires that medical treatment be given to all patients with an inflammatory problem. Mos...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Scadding GK

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse reactions to contrast material are a concern because iodinated contrast materials are commonly used drugs. The risk for adverse reaction is 4% to 12% with ionic contrast materials and 1% to 3% with nonionic contrast materials. The risk for severe adverse reaction is 0.16% with ionic contrast materials and 0.03...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Cochran ST

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Rising costs and increasing morbidity makes the identification and treatment of high-risk asthma phenotypes important. In this review, we outline the complex relationship between obesity and asthma. RECENT FINDINGS:Studies have confirmed a bi-directional relationship between obesity and asthma. Patho...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Mohan A,Grace J,Wang BR,Lugogo N

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Health-related quality of life (HRQL) has become an emerging focus of interest in food allergy. Food allergy is a disease characterized by low mortality and symptoms which only occur during an allergic reaction. However, food-allergic patients continuously need to be alert when eating in order to prevent potentially s...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： van der Velde JL,Dubois AE,Flokstra-de Blok BM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main goals of this review are to help the reader to recognize the common symptoms and signs of exercise-induced asthma and the common objective tests used to confirm or rule out the diagnosis and to understand that different forms and intensities of exercise have different asthmagenicity. The review also aims to h...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Carver TW Jr

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Olfactory functioning disturbances are common following traumatic brain injury (TBI) having a significant impact on quality of life. A spontaneous recovery of the olfactory function over time may occur in TBI patients. Although there is no standard treatment for patients with posttraumatic olfactory l...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Marin C,Langdon C,Alobid I,Mullol J

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The purpose of this review is to describe the process of administering a telemedicine program including reviewing telemedicine guidelines; discussing licensing, credentialing, and privileging of providers; outlining scheduling and recruitment of patients; and measuring outcomes of a telemedicine progr...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Taylor L,Capling H,Portnoy JM

更新日期：2018-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of a T cell through T cell receptor (TCR) is fundamental to adaptive immune responses. The lymphocyte specific kinase (LCK) plays a central role in the initiation of signaling from the TCR. TCR activates LCK through the adaptor protein uncoordinated 119 (UNC119). A mutation of human UNC119 impairs LCK a...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Gorska MM,Alam R

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of fungi in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is not clear. Fungi can be detected in the nose and paranasal sinuses of virtually all CRS patients; however, they also appear to be present in healthy controls. Various theories attempt to explain the mechanisms by which fungi can exert an effect on sinus mucosa in su...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Ebbens FA,Georgalas C,Fokkens WJ

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) refers to acute airflow obstruction that is triggered by a period of physical exertion. EIB occurs mainly in individuals with other features of asthma but is especially prominent in a subset of asthmatics with pronounced indirect airway hyperresponsiveness. Leukotrienes (LTs)...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Hallstrand TS,Henderson WR Jr

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut-associated lymphoid tissue is the specialized arm of the immune system responsible for distinguishing innocuous dietary nutrients, self-proteins, and gut flora from pathogens. Oral tolerance is the active immunologic response to innocuous ingested antigens that leads to a systemic tolerance for that antigen. T...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Stanley S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD) is an acquired disease characterized by chronic eosinophilic airway inflammation with underlying dysregulation of arachidonic acid metabolism. The purpose of this paper is to review the latest developments in our understanding of the underlying pathophysiology including t...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Woessner KM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSES OF REVIEW:Th9 cells are recognized as a novel subset of effector T helper cells that preferentially produce IL-9. Here, we provide a current update on the reports related to the function of Th9 cells in allergic inflammatory diseases. RECENT FINDINGS:The effector Th9 cells differentiating from naïve T helper ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Angkasekwinai P

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of diagnostic testing in primary immunodeficiency and immune dysregulatory disorders (PIDDs), particularly focusing on flow cytometry and genetic techniques, utilizing specific examples of PIDDs. RECENT FINDINGS:Flow cytometry remains a vital tool ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Richardson AM,Moyer AM,Hasadsri L,Abraham RS

更新日期：2018-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral rhinitis is a common, morbid, and costly malady, often complicated by otitis media, sinusitis, and asthma. Current therapies are relatively ineffective and aimed at reducing symptoms rather than moderating underlying mechanisms. Nasal elevations of proinflammatory cytokines track symptom expression during viral ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Gentile DA,Skoner DP

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The adaptive immune response orchestrated by type 2 T helper (Th2) lymphocytes, strictly cooperates with the innate response of group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2), in the protection from helminths infection, as well as in the pathogenesis of allergic disease. The aim of this review is to explore the...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Cosmi L,Liotta F,Maggi L,Annunziato F

更新日期：2017-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiologic functions of histamine have been recognized for more than 100 years, yet new roles are still being uncovered. Most importantly, a newly discovered receptor of the amine has helped refine our understanding of histamine. This new receptor, the histamine H4 receptor (H4R), has a higher affinity for histam...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Huang JF,Thurmond RL

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain and itch sensations are induced by depolarization of distinct populations of unmyelinated type C, and possibly other, neurons. Both sets of neurons and sensations serve critical protective mechanisms that maintain the integrity and patency of the upper airways. When noxious or pruritic stimuli are applied on the ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Tai CF,Baraniuk JN

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical urticarias are a heterogeneous subgroup of chronic urticarias in which wheals can be reproducibly induced by different specific physical stimuli such as cold, heat, pressure, vibration, or sunlight. Physical urticarias comprise up to 25 % of chronic urticarias and occur more frequently in young adults. Sy...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Abajian M,Młynek A,Maurer M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DiGeorge syndrome is characterized by conotruncal cardiac defects, hypocalcemia, and a hypoplastic thymus. Many, but not all, patients have a heterozygous deletion of chromosome 22q11.2. In its most severe form, it represents a devastating syndrome with high mortality. Patients with severe immunodeficiency are candida...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Sullivan KE

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory viruses appear to play a central role in asthma pathogenesis. In addition to a major role in triggering asthma exacerbations, viral infections early in life may play a role in disease development. Although defensins were initially identified as antimicrobial peptides, recent studies have demonstrated that ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Proud D

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease (EGID) can be classified as eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) when the eosinophilia is limited to the esophagus or as eosinophilic gastritis (EG) if it is limited to the gastric tract, eosinophilic colitis (EC) if it is limited to the colon, and eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) if ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Cianferoni A,Spergel JM

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of saline nasal irrigation (SNI) in the treatment of nasal and sinus disorders has its roots in the yoga tradition and homeopathic medicine. In recent years, SNI has been increasingly observed as concomitant therapy for acute (ARS) and chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). Various devices are employed, such as nasal d...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Achilles N,Mösges R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monogenic autoinflammatory diseases encompass a distinct and growing clinical entity of multisystem inflammatory diseases with known genetic defects in the innate immune system. The diseases present clinically with episodes of seemingly unprovoked inflammation (fever, rashes, and elevation of acute phase reactants). U...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Glaser RL,Goldbach-Mansky R

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) is a well-established allergen-specific immunotherapy and a safe and effective strategy to reorient inappropriate immune responses in allergic patients. SLIT takes advantage of the tolerogenic environment of the oral mucosa to promote tolerance to the allergen. Several clinical studies ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Jay DC,Nadeau KC

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the smoking prevalence in the United States continues to decline since the Surgeon General's first report in 1964, certain vulnerable populations continue to be disproportionately affected by the adverse consequences of tobacco smoke exposure. Children are particularly vulnerable to exposure and are likely to...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Ciaccio CE,Gentile D

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells are major protagonists of immune-mediated adverse drug eruptions. Immunohistochemical observation as well as isolation and functional characterization of T cells infiltrating the affected tissues provided new insights into the pathomechanisms of the diverse clinical manifestations of drug hypersensitivity, and...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Cavani A,De Pità O

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid insensitivity presents a profound management problem in patients with asthma because conventional therapies are not effective. Glucocorticoids, acting through the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), are able to selectively repress inflammatory gene expression by utilizing several distinct mechanisms targeting...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Adcock IM,Ford PA,Bhavsar P,Ahmad T,Chung KF

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral food challenges are the gold-standard diagnostic investigation for diagnosing food allergy. They allow a subject to consume an age-appropriate portion of allergenic food under surveillance to assess whether a reproducible immune-mediated adverse response is demonstrated. The specific design of food challenge must...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Feeney M,Marrs T,Lack G,Du Toit G

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00