The Adult Asthmatic
Asthma in Children and Adolesce ...
Asthma is a chronic disease that has a significant impact on quality of life and is particularly important in children and adolescents, in part due ...
Cutting Edge: The Etiology of A ...
Significant progress has been made in our understanding of the mechanisms leading to autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD). For the first time, we are ...
Overview of Penicillin Allergy
Allergy to penicillin is the most commonly reported antibiotic allergy. However, most patients who report a positive history of a prior reaction to ...
Pruritus and Atopic Dermatitis
Atopic eczema is one of the most pruritic skin diseases. Mediators of atopic eczema itch in the skin are still mostly unknown, but recent studies sh ...
Innate Immunity in Atopic Derma ...
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a clinically defined, highly pruritic, chronic inflammatory skin disease. In AD patients, the combination of a genetic pre ...
Macrophagic Myofaciitis a Vacci ...
Macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF) is an immunemediated condition first reported in 1998. MMF is characterized by post-vaccination systemic manifestatio ...
The Adult Asthmatic
Asthma in the adult patient is a complex clinical syndrome. Multiple patient phenotypes and subphenotypes exist that contribute to disease heterogen ...
Prolactin and Autoimmunity Hype ...
Evidence points to an association of prolactin to autoimmune diseases. We examined the correlation between hyperprolactinemia and disease manifestat ...
Geographical Differences in Aut ...
Much is known about the geoepidemiology of defined autoimmune diseases (AD); however, there is currently limited data regarding the prevalence of au ...
Long-Term Therapy with Intraven ...
The objective of our study is to evaluate the clinical response, steroid-sparing and adverse affects of long-term intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) ...
Cutting Edge Issues in Goodpast ...
Goodpasture’s disease, or anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease, is a systemic autoimmune disorder defined by anti-GBM antibody-media ...
Role of Dendritic Cells in Atop ...
Dendritic cells (DCs) have been recognized as key players bridging innate and adaptive immune systems. They control the balance of the adaptive immu ...
Skin Manifestations Induced by ...
The tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFل) inhibitors have been used with good clinical results in the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). ...
Hypovitaminosis D as Predisposi ...
1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D displays immunoregulatory and anti-inflammatory properties, and the cells involved in innate and adaptive immune response ex ...
Atopic Dermatitis: New Trends a ...
In the past, atopic dermatitis was considered as a polyfactorial disease. In reality, that meant that its pathophysiogeny was not understood. Nowada ...
Infectious Serologies and Autoa ...
Mixed cryoglobulinemia (MC) syndrome is an immune complex-mediated vasculitis characterized by the clinical triad of purpura, weakness, and arthralg ...
The Diagnostic and Clinical Sig ...
The role of autoimmunity in cardiovascular diseases has become one of the focal points of research studies. Autoimmune response and autoreactive aut ...
Viruses and Cytotoxic T Lymphoc ...
Histopathological studies on pancreas tissues from individuals with recent-onset type 1 diabetes (T1D) consistently find that CD8 T cells substantia ...
Cutting-Edge Issues in Coronary ...
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is the most frequent cause of venous and arterial thrombotic events in young patients. The brain arterial tree is pr ...
A Novel Algorithm for the Diagn ...
There is an urgent clinical need for a better laboratory celiac disease diagnosis with both less false positive results and minimal underdetection. ...
Therapeutic Update in Idiopathi ...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a disease of the elderly with a mean age at presentation of 66 years. It is the most common type of idiopathi ...
What is Intrinsic Atopic Dermat ...
Many authors favor a distinction between the extrinsic and intrinsic forms of atopic dermatitis. In this review, the controversy is discussed and se ...
Cutting Edge Issues in Polymyos ...
Skeletal muscle is the target tissue of immunoflogistic processes in patients affected with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). IIM are classi ...
Cutting-Edge Issues in Celiac D ...
Celiac disease (CD) is a gluten-dependent immune-mediated disease with a prevalence in the general population estimated between 0.3% and 1.2%. Large ...
Hyperferritinemia is Associated ...
Ferritin may play a direct role on the immune system. We sought to determine if elevated levels of ferritin in lupus patients correlate with disease ...