Xu, Guogang Yang, Yongshi Du, Yingzhen Peng, Fujun Hu, Peng Wang, Runsheng Yin, Ming Li, Tianzhi Tu, Lei Sun, Jinlyu
...
Published in
Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
The COVID-19 pandemic is a significant global event in the history of infectious diseases. The SARS-CoV-2 appears to have originated from bats but is now easily transmissible among humans, primarily through droplet or direct contact. Clinical features of COVID-19 include high fever, cough, and fatigue which may progress to ARDS. Respiratory failure...
Guan, Kai Liu, Bin Wang, Meng Li, Zhi Chang, Christopher Cui, Le Wang, Rui-Qi Wen, Li-Ping Leung, Patrick S. C. Wei, Ji-Fu
...
Published in
Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
Allergen immunotherapy (AIT) for allergic rhinitis (AR), asthma, and other allergic diseases has developed quickly. House dust mite (HDM), Artemisia (wormwood), Humulus japonicus (Japanese hop), Alternaria alternata, and Cladosporium herbarum are the five most common inhalant allergens in China. AIT has been performed in China for over 60 years. Wi...
Kuruvilla, Merin E. Lee, F. Eun-Hyung Lee, Gerald B.
Published in
Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
The model of asthma as a single entity has now been replaced by a much more complex biological network of distinct and interrelating inflammatory pathways. The term asthma is now considered an umbrella diagnosis for several diseases with distinct mechanistic pathways (endotypes) and variable clinical presentations (phenotypes). The precise definiti...
Chatkin, J. M. Zani-Silva, L. Ferreira, I. Zamel, N.
Published in
Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
Inhalation of cannabis smoke is its most common use and the pulmonary complications of its use may be the single most common form of drug-induced pulmonary disease worldwide. However, the role of cannabis consumption in asthma patients and allergic clinical situations still remains controversial. To review the evidence of asthma and allergic diseas...
Charpin, Denis Pichot, Christian Belmonte, Jordina Sutra, Jean-Pierre Zidkova, Jarmila Chanez, Pascal Shahali, Youcef Sénéchal, Hélène Poncet, Pascal
Published in
Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
Cypress (Cupressus sp.pl) is a genus within the Cupressaceae family. This family covers all of the Earth’s continents except for Antarctica, and it includes about 160 species. The most important taxa for allergic diseases belong to five different genera: Cupressus, Hesperocyparis, Juniperus, Cryptomeria, and Chamaecyparis. Cupressaceae species shar...
Nieto-Fontarigo, Juan J. González-Barcala, Francisco J. San José, Esther Arias, Pilar Nogueira, Montserrat Salgado, Francisco J.
Published in
Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
Asthma is a heterogeneous and chronic inflammatory family of disorders of the airways with increasing prevalence that results in recurrent and reversible bronchial obstruction and expiratory airflow limitation. These diseases arise from the interaction between environmental and genetic factors, which collaborate to cause increased susceptibility an...
Tang, Songqi Xie, Yiqiang Yuan, Conghu Sun, Xiaoming Cui, Yubao
Published in
Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
The gold standard for diagnosing asthma in children is based on clinical history of respiratory symptoms, physical examination, and respiratory function testing. Recent advances indicate that a non-invasive measure of airway inflammation, fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO), provides objective data for use in asthma diagnosis. However, the diagn...
Huang, Xinyuan Matricardi, Paolo Maria
Published in
Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
Strategies to improve patients’ adherence to treatment are essential to reduce the great health and economic burden of allergic rhinitis and asthma. Mobile phone applications (apps) for a better management of allergic diseases are growing in number, but their usefulness for doctors and patients is still debated. Controlled trials have investigated ...
Poowuttikul, Pavadee Saini, Shweta Seth, Divya
Published in
Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
Asthma in inner-city children is often severe and difficult to control. Residence in poor and urban areas confers increased asthma morbidity even after adjusting for ethnicity, age, and gender. Higher exposure to household pests, such as cockroaches and mice, pollutants and tobacco smoke exposure, poverty, material hardship, poor-quality housing, d...
Panico, Cristina Condorelli, Gianluigi
Published in
Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
The developments that have taken place in recent decades in the diagnosis and therapy of a number of diseases have led to improvements in prognosis and life expectancy. As a consequence, there has been an increase in the number of patients affected by chronic diseases and who can face new pathologies during their lifetime. The prevalence of chronic...
