Renowned eczema and allergy specialist, Matthew Zirwas, MD, discussed urticarial presentations during one of SDPA’s annual conference sessions in Los Angeles. He initiated his talk discussing the two ways to identify urticaria; by duration or by cause. Acute urticaria lasts 6 weeks, with chronic urticaria defined as lasting greater than 6 weeks. Causes of urticaria …
Dr. Micheletti returned Friday morning for an illuminating hour to discuss cutaneous drug eruptions. Cutaneous drug eruptions are common, costly, and responsible for a fair amount of morbidity and mortality in medicine. First, Dr. Micheletti discussed the differences between immune mediated and non-immune mediated drug responses. For example, many patients will develop urticaria with NSAIDS …
Featuring Dr. Jennie Clarke and Dr. Joslyn Kirby This morning Dr. Jennie Clarke and Dr. Joslyn Kirby gave a wonderful presentation reviewing pertinent medical literature from the last year applicable to current dermatology practice. Confirming what most in the dermatology field already believed, a recent JAMA Dermatology article revealed total unprotected sun exposure is significantly …
Joseph English, MD, stopped by the Dermcast studios during the SDPA’s 16th Annual Fall Dermatology Conference 2018, held in Orlando, Florida, to discuss chronic urticaria and its treatments.
A small percentage of children are affected by chronic urticaria (CU), defined as the occurrence of wheals, angioedema, or both that lasts more than 6 weeks. This happens in two groups of children, those where the eruption of hives is idiopathic and those with a known autoimmune reaction. The authors of a recent study explored …