Aquagenic urticaria is a rare form of physical urticaria, in which contact with water evokes wheals. A 19-year-old man and a 4-year-old boy complained of recurrent episodes of urticaria. Urticaria appeared while taking a bath or a shower, in the rain, or in a swimming pool. Well-defined pin head to small pea-sized wheals surrounded by variable sized erythema were provoked by contact with water ...

Much knowledge of sensory cortical plasticity is gleaned from perceptual learning studies that improve visual performance [1-7]. Although the improvements are likely caused by modifications of excitatory and inhibitory neural networks, most studies were not primarily designed to differentiate their relative contributions. Here we designed a novel push-pull training protocol to reduce sensory ey...

PURPOSE To test the validity of the Impact of Visual Impairment (IVI) questionnaire in a cataract population. SETTING Flinders Eye Centre, Flinders Medical Centre, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia. METHODS Cataract patients recruited from a hospital waiting list completed the IVI questionnaire. The scale was assessed for fit to the Rasch model. Unidimensionality, item and pers...

Microsponge containing ketotifen drug with three different proportions of ethyl cellulose and drug were obtained successfully using quasi-emulsion solvent diffusion method. These formulations were studied for particle size and physical characterization. These microsponges enriched gel formulation were prepared by using 2 and 3 % w/w of SCMC and studied for viscosity, pH, gel strength, spreadabi...

Physical urticaria includes a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by the development of urticarial lesions and/or angioedema after exposure to certain physical stimuli. The authors present the case of a child with severe acquired cold urticaria secondary to infectious mononucleosis. Avoidance of exposure to cold was recommended; prophylactic treatment with ketotifen and cetirizine wa...

The effects of ketotifen fumarate (KF) and clemastine fumarate (CF) on neutrophil chemiluminescent (CL) responses to zymosan particles coated with either IgG (IgGZ), C3 (C3Z), or both (IC3Z), were examined in vitro. These opsonized zymosans caused not only detectable neutrophil superoxide anion generation evaluated by an MCLA-dependent CL (MDCL) assay, with the order of light emission being IC3...

BACKGROUND This study analyses the prevalence and the clinical and therapeutic data on asthma collected in consultations as part of Alergológica-2005. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional, descriptive, observational, epidemiologic study was carried out. RESULTS The prevalence of asthma was 28%, lower than the 35% prevalence observed in the Alergológica-2002 study. The average age of the p...