Kanokvalai Kulthanan

..The median disease duration of CIU and autoimmune urticaria were 390 days and 450 days respectively. Our study provided an overview of CU and CIU in a large series of Thai patients, based on etiological aspects and clinical courses...

..Mean standard deviation (SD) number of attacks in patients with recurrent angioedema was 3.9 (2.7) (ranging from 2 to 10 times). Patients who had older age and multiple sites of skin involvement had tendency to have systemic symptoms...

..2%). Elevated serum total immunoglobulin E was detected in 6 of 10 patients (60%). It is concluded that adult-onset AD is not a rare but under-recognized eczematous condition...

..Fifty-six percent of the patients with acute urticaria had complete remissions within 1 week; 78.5%, within 2 weeks and 91.1%, within 3 weeks...

..The clinical role of house dust mite (HDM) in atopic dermatitis (AD) is still controversial...

..There have been reports concerning an association between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and autoimmune and rheumatic diseases...

..For cases with no specific clinical and histologic characteristics, or with ambiguous features, DIF studies may be helpful in disease differentiation...

..9%), but had little clinical relevance (3.3%) to their urticarial symptoms. Patients with mite-sensitization were more commonly male and more often had a personal or family history of atopy compared with those without mite-sensitization...

..Compared to reports from Westem countries, our patients seemed to have less severe symptoms and a lower percentage of hypocomplementemic UV and SLE...

..Forty of 50 patients (80%) had positive skin prick testing to mosquito allergen (Culex quinquefasciatus) and 31 of 42 patients (73.8%) had positive immunoglobulin E antibodies against allergens in C. quinquefasciatus saliva proteins...

..Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is a rare, subepidermal autoimmune blistering disease. Studies from different regions show discrepancies in clinical features and courses...

..DPU is generally difficult to treat successfully. Antihistamines are usually not effective. We present the case of a patient with DPU who appeared to benefit from chloroquine...

..Pemphigus is a rare, organ-specific autoimmune disease. The epidemiology and clinical course vary between reports from different countries...

..The present study was designed to evaluate the positive yield and pattern of DIF in Thai patients with scleroderma and its possible clinical correlation...

..Leukocytoclastic vasculitis (LCV) is a clinico-pathological entity. Previous direct immunofluorescence study (DIF) studies of vasculitis showed positive findings mainly in the early stage of the disease...

..Objective: To demonstrate the pattern of cutaneous reactions related to PPI usage and to evaluate the risk of developing PPI drug eruptions among adult patients...

..Colloid bodies (CB) in direct immunofluorescence (DIF) studies are usually found in interface dermatitis. Furthermore, CB can be found in various skin diseases and even in normal skin...

..Our study showed that the prevalence of positive SPT to food allergens and aeroallergens in patients with CU was common but had little clinical relevance to CU...

..Sulfonamides are divided into two main groups which are sulfonamide antibiotics and sulfonamide non-antibiotics. The wide use of sulfonamide antibiotics leads to increasing incidence of sulfonamide cutaneous reactions...

..To reveal the clinical manifestations, aggravating factors, factor associated with severity, and treatment of psoriasis in Thai patients...

..Furthermore, drug hypersensitivity syndrome was diagnosed in five patients, and Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis were detected in five patients...

..The identificstion of major allergens should facilitate the production of specific recombinant allergens and contribute to improvement in the diagnosis and specific immunotherapy of Thai mosquito bite allergy patients...

..To our knowledge, there are no specific treatments of HIES. The humanized recombinant monoclonal antibody against IgE, subcutaneous omalizumab, was successfully used in this patient...

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..These findings may be useful to help educate affected persons and improve public awareness in order to prevent and manage this disease...

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..Oral NSAIDs significantly had the shortest median onset of urticaria. After discontinuing the culprit drugs, the reactions usually disappeared within a few days...

..Although SSc patients have both physical and psychological illness, psychological distress is sometimes underestimated as most physicians usually pay more attention to physical problems...

..The causative organisms were more frequently discovered in autoimmune patients, whether by potassium hydroxide (KOH) or culture, than in non-autoimmune patients (p < 0.05; chi2, two-sided)...

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..To date, even though there are some large studies on adverse reactions related to fluoroquinolones, there is no comprehensive study focusing on cutaneous adverse drug reactions associated with their use...

..Previous studies showed that plasma D-dimer levels paralleled the severity of the disease. To date, there are no data concerning D-dimer level in Thai patients with CU...

..Adult-onset AD is a subgroup of AD. Apart from the typical eczematous flexural distribution pattern of AD, this group may also have nontypical morphology and localization...

..New kinds of antimicrobial agents, anti-inflammatory drugs and lipid lowering agents could cause various patterns of drug eruption...

..CONCLUSION: Diphencyprone contact immunotherapy appears to be a possible alternative treatment of widespread molluscum contagiosum in immunocompromised patients...

..Many factors are thought to be responsible for this condition, such as atopic dermatitis, dry skin, emotional stress or seasonal variation...

..Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) that occurs in SLE patients has been infrequently reviewed. This condition is complicated to diagnose because medication can produce a blistering eruption that resembles vesiculobullous disease in SLE...

..The volar forearm, back and abdomen are the sensitive areas to produce dermographism while the shin is the least sensitive area. The site of the body that is most appropriate in testing is the forearm as it is easy to approach...