BACKGROUND Under certain conditions, exertional headaches may reflect coronary ischemia. CASE REPORT A 44-year-old woman developed intermittent exercise-induced headaches with chest tightness over a period of 10 months. Cardiac catheterization followed by acetylcholine provocation demonstrated a right coronary artery spasm with chest tightness, headache, and ischemic effect of continuous elec...

Oranges are suspected of inducing adverse skin reactions in patients with atopic eczema. We studied 21 adult patients with atopic eczema and a history of adverse reactions to oranges and 10 patients without. A dietary history, skin tests, serum IgE and oral provocation tests with oranges were obtained. Severity of eczema was monitored by SCORAD, and serum tryptase, eosinophil cationic protein a...

BACKGROUND Smoking and other risk factors have been well known as important factors of variant angina or coronary artery spasm (CAS). However, clinical features related to age on coronary artery spasm have been rarely evaluated. METHODS We evaluated 3155 consecutive patients with insignificant coronary artery lesion. Patients underwent Acetylcholine (Ach) provocation test for induction of CAS...

BACKGROUND Elevated anger is a prominent clinical feature of bipolar disorder (BD). However, it is unclear whether this feature is characterized by elevated trait anger (i.e., how much anger one experiences in general) and/or state anger (i.e., how much anger one experiences when provoked), how stable anger elevations are (i.e., whether they appear during remission), and whether they have progn...

Allergen provocation of allergic asthma patients is often characterized by an initial period of bronchoconstriction, or early phase reaction (EPR), that leads to maximal airway narrowing within 15-30 min, followed by a recovery period returning airway function to baseline within 1-2 h. In this study, we used a defined OVA provocation model and mice deficient for specific leukocyte populations t...

BACKGROUND Allergen exposure via the respiratory tract and in particular via the nasal mucosa boosts systemic allergen-specific IgE production. Intranasal corticosteroids (INCS) represent a first line treatment of allergic rhinitis but their effects on this boost of allergen-specific IgE production are unclear. AIM Here we aimed to determine in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study whether...

Plasma exudation and vasodilatation are key microvascular features of acute inflammation. Exudation and vasodilatation responses in the weal area after skin prick testing with histamine are essentially completed within 30 min. There is evidence to suggest that vasodilatation lasts considerably longer after provocation with allergen, but there is no information on the duration of plasma exudatio...

We tested the hypotheses that the hostility and anger scales of the Buss and Perry (1992) [Buss, A. H. & Perry, M. (1992). The Aggression Questionnaire. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 452-459.] Aggression Questionnaire would predict anger in college students in response to mistreatment. We found low and high hostility groups did not differ in anger at baseline or after comple...