Clinical contraindications to allergen immunotherapy – relative and absolute, permanent or temporary

Henna Tattoo: Temporary or Permanent?

Medical contraindications to implant therapy: part I: absolute contraindications.

In order to ensure implant success, it is essential to select patients who do not possess local or systemic contraindications to therapy. Hence, it is the purpose of this paper to review the medical diseases that reportedly preclude conventional dental implant treatment. Absolute contraindications to implant rehabilitation include recent myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular accident, valvu...

Recent Progress in Allergen Immunotherapy

The efficacy of allergen immunotherapy for the treatment of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis with or without seasonal bronchial asthma and anaphylaxis caused by the sting of the hymenoptera class of insects has been clearly demonstrated in numerous well-designed, placebo-controlled trials. Immunotherapy whether by subcutaneous injection of allergen extract or by oral/sublingual routes modifies peri...

Contraindications to percutaneous tracheostomy due to anomaly of aortic-arch branches origin and running: relative or absolute.

initial repair, we obtained a competent valve and also severe outflow obstruction due to systolic anterior motion (SAM) that we unsuccessfully tried to address with a conventional A2–P2 Alfieri repair. SAM persisted; hence, we removed the midline A2–P2 Alfieri stitch and placed a new edge-to-edge stitch now between the A1–P1 segments as shown in the picture. Actually, in the picture, we can see...

Absolute and Relative Contraindications to IV rt-PA for Acute Ischemic Stroke.

Most of the contraindications to the administration of intravenous (IV) recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) originated as exclusion criteria in major stroke trials. These were derived from expert consensus for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) trial. Despite the fact that the safety and efficacy of IV rtPA has been repeatedly confirmed in large inte...