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Evaluating patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria or angioedema for thyroid autoimmunity should be part of their standard workup. Therapeutic use of thyroid hormone may be considered a therapeutic option in select patients who fail to respond to conventional therapy....
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Workup and Management of Chronic UrticariaS. Mustafa
Background: In chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU), the guidelines recommend very limited diagnostic procedures during the routine workup, although additional investigations might be indicated in some CSU patients. For physicians treating CSU patients, it is often difficult to decide which diagnostic ...
Unfortunately, this is the most common cause ofchronic urticaria. After a thorough workup the cause of urticaria is labeledidiopathic if none of the above diagnostic features can be discerned.K. Autoimmune disease may account for up to 40% of chronic cases.II. INVESTIGATION: The diagnostic ...
Besides acute, chronic, and physical urticarias, there are 2 categories of diseases that have urticarial lesions. The first group includes those in which the skin lesions are almost indistinguishable from those seen in patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria. Thus, the diagnosis relies on a ...
GOAL : Idiopathic chronic urticaria may be associated to other auto-immune diseases, in particular thyroiditis. The goal of our study is to show that this association is higher than the incidence of auto-immune thyroiditis in the general population. METHODS : It is a retrospective observational ...
In many patients, an extensive workup does not discover an etiology. Patients in whom no explanation for his urticaria are said to have chronic idiopathic urticaria. Various infectious agents have been reported as causes of urticaria, including Helicobacter pylori, which is a common worldwide ...
Physical urticariaDrugsChronic urticaria (CU) is defined as the persistence of wheals that for more than 6 weeks. In children, the most common type of CU is idiopathic, but other types like immunologic, non-immunologic and cryopyrin-associated syndromes have been described. Extensive workup is ...