ALLMedicine™ Urticarial Vasculitis Center

May 28th, 2021 - Urticaria (or hives) is a pruritic and erythematous skin rash. Angioedema commonly occurs with urticaria. The term "chronic urticaria" is used when hives are present for more than 6 weeks. Acute urticaria is common in children, whereas chronic urt...

May 11th, 2021 - Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis syndrome (HUVS) is a rare autoimmune disorder characterised by recurrent urticarial lesions and acquired hypocomplementemia with systemic manifestations. The authors present the case of a 70-year-old man wh...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - Thromboinflammation is a still not well-understood phenomenon, which has recently come to the foreground as a function of its relevance in the pathophysiology of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The patient described in the present case report...

Feb 17th, 2021 - Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) may occasionally exhibit long-lasting lesions with bruising, usually considered a hallmark of urticarial vasculitis (UV). Histopathology of these chronic urticarial lesions has not been extensively studied. Skin...

Feb 12th, 2021 - Hypocomplementemic Urticarial Vasculitis Syndrome revealed by Bilateral Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss.|2021|Poillon G,Levy D,Lecler A,Sené T,|

May 30th, 2012 - This is a single-center open label study to assess the efficacy and safety of single doses of canakinumab (trade name Ilaris®), a high-affinity monoclonal antibody that neutralizes IL-1β, in patients with active urticarial vasculitis. Efficacy is ...

Mar 26th, 2018 - Cutaneous biopsy findings from urticaria lesions may be divided into the following categories, because the response to treatment may be different: Class 1: A mixture of perivascular dermal inflammatory infiltrates composed of lymphocytes, monocyte...

Nov 28th, 2014 - Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis (HUV) is an uncommon systemic vasculitis with various clinical manifestations for which an optimal therapeutic strategy has yet to be defined, a report from the French Vasculitis Study Group indicates. A Fr...

Feb 5th, 2013 - Hello. I am Jonathan Kay, Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Research in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center, both in Worcester, Massachusetts. Today I would ...

ABSTRACTNonsmokers with signs of emphysema at an earlier age than is typical for emphysema deserve a workup for one of the less common causes of emphysema, which include alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, connective tissue diseases, hypocomplementemi.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Skin manifestations of Sjögren's syndrome may not be unique to the disease, but they require specific interventions and close monitoring, Darren L.