ABSTRACT
Chronic urticaria and concurrent angioedema are disappoiting problems for both physicians and patients. The disease can result from multiple causes and probably does not have a single etiology. Several factors have been identified that appear to be important in the pathogenesis of individual cases, some drugs, food additives, physical factors and internal diseases. In some cases no pathogenesis are identified and those cases are classified as idiopathic. In recent years several articles has emphasized autoimmunity and infections due to Helicobacter pylori. Our article reviewed the etiology of chronic urticari at current concepts.
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Humans , Urticaria/etiology , Parasitic Diseases/complications , Bacterial Infections/complications , Urticaria/diagnosis , Urticaria/immunology , Virus Diseases/complications , Autoimmunity , Chronic Disease , Angioedema/diagnosis , Angioedema/etiology , Angioedema/immunologyABSTRACT
Os autores analisam o valor de provas de competencia imunologica na avaliacao prognostica e imunoterapica no tratamento cirurgico do cancer colorretal. Foram estudados 76 pacientes, incluidos na classificacao de Dukes: no grupo A, um paciente: no grupo B, 46 pacientes e 29 no grupo C.Todos os doentes submeteram-se a avaliacao de imunidade celular por testes cutaneos de varios antigenos, cujas respostas foram estimadas por pontos. Concluiram os autores que o perfil imunologico celular tem valor prognostico em pacientes do grupo B, o que nao ocorre com os pacientes do grupo C. As respostas foram fracas nos doentes dos grupos A e B, estimulados, melhoraram as respostas e tiveram evolucao superior
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Humans , Rectal Neoplasms , BCG Vaccine , Immunocompetence , Colonic NeoplasmsSubject(s)
Infant , Child, Preschool , Child , Humans , Male , Female , Prurigo , Hypersensitivity , Immunotherapy , Insect Bites and StingsSubject(s)
Immunoglobulins , Immunoglobulin A , Immunoglobulin E , Immunoglobulin G , Immunoglobulin MABSTRACT
Devido ao uso frequente dos anti-histaminicos na vivencia pediatrica, fizemos uma breve revisao com objetivo de dar nocoes basicas sobre estas drogas