Rapid desensitization to chemotherapy drugs in oncologic patients. A good and safe option. A two-case presentation.

Hypersensitivity reactions, and anaphylactic or anaphylactoid reactions to oncologic chemotherapy drugs, such as platinum, taxanes, monoclonal antibodies and others, limit their therapeutic use due to the fear of the treating physician to induce severe or deadly reactions in patients who have presented previous reactions to the same. This leads to the use of less effective or second line chemotherapy schemes for the sensitivity of the tumor. The rapid desensitization to such medications in patients who have presented previous reactions is a safe and proven effective procedure, which allows the use of the most effective chemotherapy drugs for the tumor sensitivity in oncologic patients even if they have presented hypersensitivity reactions to those drugs previously.

Comparative mites and cockroaches sensitization study in three cities of Mexico.

Background: In Mexico there are few research papers dealing with mites and cockroaches sensibilizing in patients suffering from respiratory allergies and even less susceptibility comparative studies to the same between cities having different climatic and geographic characteristics.

Objectives: To research in a prospective study skin sensibilizing to eighy different mites and two cockroaches species in patients with respiratory allergies in three cities of Mexico: Monterrey, NL, Tampico, Tamps., and Irapuato, Gto.

Asthma in emergency department. Guidelines, physicians and patients.

Background: Morbidity and mortality by bronchial asthma continues to be a serious public health problem all over the world. Bronchial asthma is considered the most common chronic disease among children and asthmatic crises are the most frequent cause for visits to the emergency room. Among adults, bronchial asthma has also a high rate of morbidity and repercussions in productivity as well as in the costs of the health systems that assist them.