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Cassava oral immunotherapy in cassava-latex allergy: A pilot study [PDF]

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global
Background: Cassava allergy is rare; however, because of the cross-reactivity of cassava with latex, it is clinically significant, affecting patient safety and quality of life. Oral immunotherapy (OIT) has been studied for use in patients with allergy to
Roberta Almeida Castro Araújo, MSc, MD, Claudia Leiko Yonekura Anagusko, MD, Paula Lazaretti Morato Castro, MD, Anne Karoline Rocha Medrado Ventura, PhD, Fábio Fernandes Morato Castro, PhD, MD, Jorge Elias Kalil Filho, PhD, MD, Keity Souza Santos, PhD, Ariana Campos Yang, PhD, MD   +7 more
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Highly sensitized kidney transplant candidates: integrating acceptable mismatch, desensitization, imlifidase, and emerging immune-cell targeting strategies [PDF]

Frontiers in Immunology
Highly sensitized kidney transplant candidates are difficult to transplant because anti-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) sensitization restricts access to immunologically compatible organs, as transplantation across donor-specific antibodies (DSA) increases
Stefan Reuter, Nils Lachmann, Hans de Ferrante, Georg A. Böhmig, Klemens Budde   +4 more
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Desensitization for the prevention of drug hypersensitivity reactions [PDF]

The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2022
Drug desensitization is the temporary induction of tolerance to a sensitized drug by administering slow increments of the drug, starting from a very small amount to a full therapeutic dose.
Sung-Yoon Kang, Jeongmin Seo, Hye-Ryun Kang   +2 more
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Prophylactic vaccinations management in patients undergoing allergen immunotherapy – a review

Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, 2022
Allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is the only casual method of allergy treatment. It is based on regular administration of a gradually increasing dose of an allergen to induce immunological tolerance to a particular sensitising factor. Due to proven efficacy,
Ewa Czerwińska, Marita Nittner-Marszalska, Agnieszka Mastalerz-Migas, Leszek Szenborn   +3 more
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Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and cervical adenitis recurrence temporally associated with allergen-specific immunotherapy in a female adolescent: a case report

Reumatismo, 2023
Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and cervical adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome is the most common periodic fever syndrome in pediatric patients.
C. Granjo Morais, A. Martins, S. Ganhão, F. Aguiar, M. Rodrigues, I. Brito   +5 more
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Delivery options for sublingual immunotherapy for allergic rhinoconjunctivitis: clinical considerations for North America [PDF]

Rhinology Online, 2022
Background: Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) can be delivered via tablets (SLIT-T) or aqueous drops (SLIT-D). SLIT-D dosing recommendations using North American extracts were published in 2015.
Kent Lam, Jayant M. Pinto, Stella E. Lee, Karen Rance, Hendrik Nolte   +4 more
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Triple IgE-positivity to hornet, wasp and bee venom in the patient with anaphylaxis: Diagnostic and therapeutic approach [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2019
Introduction. Triple-positivity (TP) or double-positivity (DP) for serum-specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE) antibodies against hornet venom (HV), wasp venom (WV) and/or honeybee venom (BV) causes significant problem in a selection of appropriate venom ...
Jovanović Dragana, Perić-Popadić Aleksandra, Andrejević Slađana, Jovanović Igor, Bonači-Nikolić Branka   +4 more
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Reduced pro-inflammatory dendritic cell phenotypes are a potential indicator of successful peanut oral immunotherapy.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Dendritic cells are important mediators in the early presentation of antigen and regulation of the differentiation of T cells. Peanut oral immunotherapy (POIT) results in desensitization in most peanut allergic individuals (responders), but not in others
Sara Anvari, Levi B Watkin, Charles G Minard, Kimberly Schuster, Oluwatomi Hassan, Aikaterini Anagnostou, Jordan S Orange, David B Corry, Carla M Davis   +8 more
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Successful Treatment of Insulin Allergy with Desensitization Therapy: A Case Report and Literature Review

Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, 2019
Insulin therapy is an essential treatment for type 1 and uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Hypersensitivity reactions have been described since the first administration of insulin, the same as any other therapy.
Hamza Elfekih, Faten Hadjkacem, Mouna Elleuch, Dorra Ghorbel, Nadia Charfi, Fatma Mnif, Nabila Rekik, Mouna Mnif, Mohamed Abid   +8 more
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ITULAZAX® versus Alutard SQ® in the treatment of allergic rhinitis induced by pollen from the birch homologous group: A cost‐minimization modeling analysis from the Danish societal perspective

Clinical and Translational Allergy, 2022
Background and aims Allergic rhinitis (AR) is an inflammatory disorder triggered by an allergic immune response to inhaled allergens. Birch pollen is the major allergenic tree pollen in parts of Europe.
Steen M. Rønborg, Tobias Sydendal Grand, Henrik Brandi, Richard F. Pollock   +3 more
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