Recall Urticaria: Aspirin Also Induces It

Genetic mechanism of aspirin-induced urticaria/angioedema.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Aspirin-induced urticaria/angioedema is a major aspirin-related hypersensitivity often associated with aspirin-intolerant asthma. Genetic studies on aspirin-intolerant asthma have shown chronic overproduction of cysteinyl leukotrienes. The genetic analysis of aspirin-induced urticaria/angioedema is limited, however. RECENT FINDINGS A recent study on HLA genotypes has suggest...

As I Recall It

The following year (1952), after Emerson had presented his account, Dr. God-frey's story of the beginnings of the AES were set forth before the Society. It was quite different, almost, in fact-a rebuttal. Even in the early 1920s, as an active health official, Godfrey had begun a crusade to convince public health workers around the country of the value of accurate, quantitative reporting of dise...

Recurrent urticaria lesions in a heparin-allergic patient: most likely another form of "recall urticaria".

In this report we describe a female patient with a history of heparin allergy and recurrent urticaria lesions at definite locations where the heparin injections were administered previously.

Antigen-specific recall urticaria to a peptide-based vaccine.

Recall urticaria (RU) is a localized urticarial response that occurs at a site of previous antigen injection on reexposure to that antigen at a remote site.1 The response is rare and typically associated with allergy immune therapies. The mechanism for RU is poorly understood, but possibilities include increased accumulation and degranulation of mast cells at the site of previous allergy inject...

Aspirin desensitization achieved after omalizumab treatment in a patient with aspirin-exacerbated urticaria and respiratory disease.