Angiotensin Skin Tests

Angiotensin skin tests.

MANY ATTEMPTS have been made to establish the relationship between angiotensin, human hypertension, and experimental hypertension. Three groups have reported the successful demonstration of a pressor material in varying amounts in the blood of patients with benign and malignant hypertension.-3 Boucher, Biron, and Genest2 claim that the material they isolated gave pressor reactions, chemical rea...

Skin prick tests and allergy diagnosis.

Skin testing remains an essential diagnostic tool in modern allergy practice. A significant variability has been reported regarding technical procedures, interpretation of results and documentation. This review has the aim of consolidating methodological recommendations through a critical analysis on past and recent data. This will allow a better understanding on skin prick test (SPT) history; ...

Skin tests in bird breeder's disease.

The diagnostic value of skin tests was assessed in 35 patients affected by bird breeder's disease by comparing the results with those obtained in a group of 27 symptomless breeders and 10 symptomless unexposed individuals. Sterilised and diluted serum and lyophilised extracts of faeces prepared from the breeder's own birds were injected intradermally. Skinprick tests using the same materials we...

Serious allergic reactions following tuberculin skin tests.

Patient's self-interpretation of tuberculin skin tests.

BACKGROUND In the outpatient use of tuberculin skin testing (purified protein derivative [PPD]), it is at times inconvenient to have a patient revisit for interpretation. Therefore, we assessed patients' ability to self-interpret these test results. METHODS In keeping with prior custom, patients were seen by an experienced nurse, who performed skin testing with PPD intermediate strength as we...