Firooz Alireza; Hallaji Zahra; Khatami Alireza; Lajevardi Vahideh; Mansouri Parvin; Pedram Mehryan; Zohreh Mozafari; Mansour Nassiri-Kashani; Reza Robati; Hassan Seirafi
Volume 18, Issue 3 , 2015, , Pages 81-96
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Urticaria is a common and challenging skin disorder. Diagnosis and treatment of urticaria is not limited to the field of dermatology. General physicians, allergologists and clinical immunologists are also commonly involved in the management of patients with urticaria.One of the missions of the Iranian ...
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Urticaria is a common and challenging skin disorder. Diagnosis and treatment of urticaria is not limited to the field of dermatology. General physicians, allergologists and clinical immunologists are also commonly involved in the management of patients with urticaria.One of the missions of the Iranian Society of Dermatology is to develop strategies in order to provide the best possible management for patients suffering from dermatological conditions. To accomplish this mission, the Society assigned a committee to search and critically appraise the recent research evidence and available guidelines to develop a clinical practice guideline concerning diagnosis and treatment of urticaria.
Alireza Firooz; Mansour Nassiri-Kashani; Reza Sarhangnejad; Mehdi Rashighi-Firoozabadi; Farzam Gorouhi
Volume 10, Issue 1 , 2007, , Pages 26-31
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Background and aim: Contact dermatitis is an inflammatory skin response due to contact with environmental materials manifested as acute or chronic eczema. Patch test is the standard test to recognize responsible allergen. The objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency of false positive patch ...
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Background and aim: Contact dermatitis is an inflammatory skin response due to contact with environmental materials manifested as acute or chronic eczema. Patch test is the standard test to recognize responsible allergen. The objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency of false positive patch test responses in patients with Exited Skin Syndrome (ESS).Materials and methods: Fourteen patients older than 12 years with allergic contact dermatitis who had more than one positive reaction in first patch test were re-tested with the same allergens at the time of remission of their eczema. The patches were removed after 48 hours and responses read according to ICDRG guidelines.Results: The patients included 5 men and 9 women with a mean age of 34.92 years. The most common allergens in first patch test were: nickel sulfate (10), cobalt chloride (5), colophony (4), potassium dichromate, PTBF, fragrance mix and MCI/MI (3 each). In the repeated test, the most common positive responses were: nickel (10), cobalt and colophony (4 each), potassium dichromate and fragrance mix (3 each). In 6 of 14 patients the results of second test was different from first one. Three of these patients had active eczema at the time of first test, which in 2 of them one positive response and in one of them, 2 positive responses became negative in second test.Conclusion: It is recommended that patch test be repeated after a while in patients with multiple positive reactions in first test, particularly after remission of active eczema.