Skin Allergy: Urticaria
Mechanisms of action that contribute to efficacy of omalizumab in chronic spontaneous urticaria The monoclonal anti‐immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibody, omalizumab, was the first drug approved for use in patients with…
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Mechanisms of action that contribute to efficacy of omalizumab in chronic spontaneous urticaria The monoclonal anti‐immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibody, omalizumab, was the first drug approved for use in patients with…
Non‐Allergic Rhinitis: Position paper of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology This EAACI position paper aims at providing a… onlinelibrary.wiley.com A randomized multicenter study evaluating Xolair persistence of…
Allergen immunotherapy for IgE‐mediated food allergy: a systematic review and meta‐analysis The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical… onlinelibrary.wiley.com Debates in allergy medicine: baked milk and egg ingestion accelerates resolution…
Multiple Drug Hypersensitivity Syndrome Is this syndrome more than a single entity? medscape.com Multiple Drug Hypersensitivity www.karger.com Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) Syndrome and the Rheumatologist The…
Ofatumumab, a human anti‐CD20 monoclonal antibody, for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with an inadequate response to one or more disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs: Results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase I/II…
Glucocorticoids in rheumatoid arthritis: the picture is shaping up Despite the well-known efficacy of glucocorticoids (GCs), it is more common than exceptional that their known adverse event profile and co-morbidity…
Pain Thresholds Tied to RA Disease Activity Pain sensitization associated with disease activity composites medpagetoday.com Composite clinical disease activity scores over-estimate disease activity in patients with low pain thresholds or…
BeST, AVERT, RETRO, and DRESS In their discussion of RA flares and tapering treatment, Drs. Cush and Kavanaugh cover the BeST, AVERT, RETRO, and DRESS studies youtube.com Comparing a tapering…
Biologic or tofacitinib monotherapy for rheumatoid arthritis in people with traditional disease‐modifying anti‐rheumatic drug (DMARD) failure: a Cochrane Systematic Review and network meta‐analysis (NMA) We performed a systematic review, a…
Remission Criteria in RA Not Interchangeable Achieving remission in rheumatoid arthritis may depend on which disease activity measure you use. rheumatologynetwork.com Comparative Assessment of the Different ACR/EULAR Remission Definitions for…