A 20-year-old man was referred to our allergy and immunology department with the complaints of intense pruritus, generalised erythema and oedema on the trunk, face and extremities after exposure to cold. He had experienced the same symptoms on cold rainy days. The patient reported that all his cold-related complaints had begun 10 years ago shortly after a common wasp sting on his head, which wa...

Our case illustrates the persistence of severe rheumatic carditis and emphasises a number of points in the diagnosis and management of a febrile child with valvulitis and significant haemodynamic disturbance. The differential diagnosis between the two most likely aetiological factors was made difficult by the previous administration of antibiotics and by the absence of laboratory evidence of a ...

CAP value among the 3 groups. MANOVA multivariate analysis evaluated differences in overall CAPs and the effects of age, gender, Mueller grade and stings number. A P , 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Data were analysed by ‘SPSS’ 13.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). We called NS patients to check if they were stung after VIT discontinuation. Results: We selected 84 NS, 72 SP3 and 76 SP5...