Chronic urticaria: recent advancesMalcolm W Greaves
St Johns Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas Hospital, London, UK
Clin Rev Allergy Immunol 33:134-43. 2007
..Cyclosporin is also effective and can be used in selected cases of autoimmune urticaria, and it is also effective in non-autoimmune cases, although less so...
- Killer waves at Yuletide: a hair-raising experience
Malcolm W Greaves
Singapore General Hospital
J Am Acad Dermatol 52:E22-3. 2005
- Antihistamines in dermatology
Malcolm W Greaves
National Skin Centre, Singapore, Singapore
Skin Pharmacol Physiol 18:220-9. 2005
..Two early low-sedation second-generation antihistamines caused arrhythmias in a small number of patients but these compounds have now been withdrawn. Generally, the second-generation H1 antihistamines are well tolerated...
- Recent advances in pathophysiology and current management of itch
Malcolm W Greaves
Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ann Acad Med Singapore 36:788-92. 2007
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- Itch in systemic disease: therapeutic options
Malcolm W Greaves
National Skin Centre, Singapore
Dermatol Ther 18:323-7. 2005
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- Chronic idiopathic urticaria
Malcolm W Greaves
Department of Dermatology, Singapore General Hospital
Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 3:363-8. 2003
..The review also seeks to point up rational approaches to diagnosis and treatment in the light of these developments...
- Itch: more than skin deep
Malcolm W Greaves
St Johns Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas Hospital, London, UK
Int Arch Allergy Immunol 135:166-72. 2004
..The combined use of both mu-receptor antagonists and kappa-receptor agonists (anti-pruritic) is worth exploring...
Pathogenesis and treatment of pruritusMalcolm W Greaves
Cutaneous Allergy Clinic, St John s Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Curr Allergy Asthma Rep 10:236-42. 2010
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- Classification of anti-FcepsilonRI and anti-IgE autoantibodies in chronic idiopathic urticaria and correlation with disease severity
Ruth A Sabroe
St John's Institute of Dermatology and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, King's College London, St Thomas' Hospital, London
J Allergy Clin Immunol 110:492-9. 2002
..Elucidating these mechanisms might lead to new treatments for CIU...
- Clinical classification of itch: a position paper of the International Forum for the Study of Itch
Sonja Ständer
Clinical Neurodermatology, Department of Dermatology, University of Munster, Von Esmarch Strasse 58, Munster, Germany
Acta Derm Venereol 87:291-4. 2007
..It is intended to serve as a diagnostic route for better evaluation of patients with chronic pruritus and aims to improve patients' care...
- Chronic urticaria
Clive E H Grattan
Dermatology Centre, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK
J Am Acad Dermatol 46:645-57; quiz 657-60. 2002
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- Itch
Gil Yosipovitch
Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27517, USA
Lancet 361:690-4. 2003
..We describe the clinical classification of itch, new findings on neuropathophysiology of itch, methods for assessment, and improved treatments...
- Angioedema
Allen P Kaplan
Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
J Am Acad Dermatol 53:373-88; quiz 389-92. 2005
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- Antihistamines in urticaria and angioedema
Anne Kobza Black
Guy's, King's, and St. Thomas' School of Medicine, London, England
Clin Allergy Immunol 17:249-86. 2002
..The available evidence does not justify the routine addition of H2-antihistamine treatment to H1-antihistamine treatment...
- Cutaneous mast cell receptors
Michihiro Hide
Department of Dermatology, Programs for Biomedical Research, Division of Molecular Medical Science, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1 2 3 Kasumi, Minami Ku, Hiroshima 734 8551, Japan
Dermatol Clin 25:563-75, ix. 2007
..MC(T) and MC(TC) are different in their granular neutral proteases, tissue localizations, and functions. This article describes the differences between the cutaneous mast cell receptors...
- Drug-induced urticaria and angioedema: pathomechanisms and frequencies in a developing country and in developed countries
Malcolm W Greaves
Department of Dermatology, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Int Arch Allergy Immunol 128:1-7. 2002
..In Malaysia, and in many other countries compulsory, ingredient labelling of 'traditional' medicines would do much to reduce the frequency of drug-induced urticaria...
- Pathophysiology of chronic urticaria
Malcolm W Greaves
Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Int Arch Allergy Immunol 127:3-9. 2002
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