Publications by authors named "F Touraine"

Article Synopsis
  • Hymenoptera venom allergy significantly affects quality of life, and while allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is effective, predicting its success remains challenging due to a lack of biomarkers.
  • This study analyzed patient data from 1985 to 2022 at the University Hospital of Limoges to assess the role of IgE blocking activity as a potential predictor of AIT efficacy against Hymenoptera venom.
  • Results indicated that IgE blocking activity did not predict relapse after stopping AIT, but a correlation was found between this activity and IgG antibody levels, suggesting that further research is needed to explore the role of these antibodies in monitoring treatment outcomes.
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Background: A major problem of venom-specific immunotherapy (VIT) is the absence of reliable parameters for deciding treatment discontinuation.

Aim Of The Study: Intracutaneous tests (ICTs), the basophil activation test (BAT), specific IgEs (sIgEs) and blocking factor (BF) activity were measured during VIT. We made an evaluation by means of a protective index (PI) including ICT, BAT and BF values.

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Glioblastoma is the most common form of primary brain cancer. Its treatment involves surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy with temozolomide (tmz), which is an oral alkylating agent. To the best of our knowledge, few dermatologic side effects of tmz have been described.

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Described by Reich and Johnson in 1992 [2], the Lady Windermere syndrome occurs exclusively in non-smoking women over the age of 60 years, without significant pre-existing pulmonary disease. It comprises bronchial dilatation, typically in the middle lobe and lingula, together with secondary infection by atypical mycobacteria (Mycobacterium avium in the first cases). Among the 17 cases of atypical mycobacterial infection that we have seen in the past 14 years, there were seven cases of this syndrome.

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