allergic rhinitis is a chronic respiratory disease. sympathetic hypofunction is identified in all of the allergic rhinitis patients. moreover, allergic rhinitis is associated with decreased peak nasal inspiratory flow (pnif) and impaired lung functions. the aim of this study was to investigate effects of six-week of aquatic exercise on the autonomic nervous system function, pnif and lung functi...

INTRODUCTION Surgical patients are exposed to multiple foreign substances in the perioperative period including drugs, blood products, or environmental antigens such as latex. Because any substance can produce an allergic or adverse reaction, clinicians must be ready to manage patients in this perioperative environment. The most life-threatening form of an allergic reaction is anaphylaxis, howe...

To the Editor: We report an incident of an allergic reaction to a small dose of intraarterial nonionic contrast material that was administered during cerebral angiography in a patient premedicated with steroids and antihistamines. A 23-year-old man with epilepsy was referred for cerebral angiography and Wada testing. These were performed for the purpose of language and memory testing before tem...

background: contact dermatitis (cd) is a significant problem among nurses. although there are reports about the prevalence of cd from different parts of the world, data about its frequency in turkey and about allergic contact sensitization among nurses is insufficient. objective: to define the frequency and patterns of allergic contact sensitization and related symptoms in practicing and studen...

Radiocontrast material is among the common drugs causing allergic reaction. Mostly it well tolerated. The symptoms range from mild with urticaria to fatal anaphylaxis, developing rapidly. Anaphylaxis most severe form of radiocontrast media (RCM) induced hypersensitivity With more use diagnostic and therapeutic procedure, increasing. We report here two cases anaphylactic reaction that occurred d...

Background: Persistent fever worried many patients all over the world, however, none clear etiology was

Summary Food allergies, especially delayed hypersensitivity reactions, are often challenging for both patients and clinicians. Here, we report the case of a 64-year-old man who had allergic reactions six hours after eating a meal containing red meat. He reported that he had several tick bites in months before the reaction. High serum specific IgE levels of alpha-gal confirmed the diagnosis of a...

Trichosanthin (TCS) whose molecular weight is 26000.0 (hereafter called injectable TCS) is a type I ribosome-inactivating protein possessing various pharmacological properties including anticancer effect, inducing mid-term abortion, immunomodulation and anti-HIV activities. Especially, its anticancer effect is more important. In clinic, injectable TCS has been used to treat chorioblastoma as an...

The case is described of a man aged 51 years who, one hour after a coronary angiographic examination that showed coronary arteries without lesions, suffered an acute inferior myocardial infarction as the result of an acute allergic reaction, probably to the iodinated contrast agent that was used. Acute myocardial infarction following an allergy is an extremely rare clinical entity that, accordi...