[Omalizumab for the treatment of chronic urticaria: Real-life findings].

Objective: Assessment of the efficacy and safety of omalizumab in chronic urticaria refractory to conventional treatment (H1-antihistamines at high dosage and montelukast) in real-life practice.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective, descriptive, single-centre study was performed of the data for all patients presenting refractory chronic spontaneous urticaria or inducible urticaria and receiving omalizumab (300mg every four weeks) from November 2012 to June 2016.

Results: In all, 23 patients were included.

Kawasaki disease in adults: Observations in France and literature review.

Objective: Kawasaki disease (KD) is a vasculitis that mostly occurs in young children and rarely in adults. We analyzed the characteristics of adult-onset KD (AKD) in France.

Methods: We collected retrospective and prospective data for patients with a diagnosis of KD occurring after the age of 18 years.

Five cases of contact dermatitis to a trendy pet.

Skin contact with animal hair may induce contact urticaria (syndrome) or protein contact dermatitis. We report here 5 cases of dermatitis due to contact with ferrets kept as pets. The nature of the skin lesions, i.

Multiple-checkpoint inhibition of thymic stromal lymphopoietin-induced TH2 response by TH17-related cytokines.

Background: The interplay between allergy and autoimmunity has been a matter of long debate. Epidemiologic studies point to a decreased frequency of allergy in patients with autoimmune diseases. However, recent studies suggest that IL-17 and related cytokines, which play a central role in autoimmunity, might also promote allergy.