Publications by authors named "O P Monge-Ortega"

Background: Stevens-Johnson syndrome is a severe drug reaction. Sulfonamides have been associated with drug reactions, complications, sequelae, even death.

Case Report: A 40-year-old female patient with a medical history of endometriosis and recently diagnosed chronic inflammatory ulcerative colitis.

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  • There is currently no consensus on how to define and categorize the severity of food allergies, despite the existence of various scoring systems for anaphylactic reactions.
  • The aim of this study was to develop a global scoring system, called DEFASE, that comprehensively assesses food allergy severity using input from international experts.
  • The results showed strong agreement among experts on key components of the DEFASE score through a structured survey, marking it as the first comprehensive grading that considers the overall disease spectrum, not just individual reactions.
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Objective: To describe the medical and laboratory profile of the patients who have been diagnosed with chronic urticaria in the outpatient clinic of a tertiary care hospital of the social security system in Costa Rica.

Methods: All patients over 13 years of age who had been diagnosed with chronic urticaria between January 1st, 2014, and December 31st, 2018 were included. Variables of medical and laboratory data were statistically analyzed, and the treatment of the patients between their first and last medical consultation was compared.

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Allergic diseases are one of the most frequent chronic diseases in the world. It has been established that there is a worldwide epidemic of allergic diseases; therefore, the treatment of allergies should be acknowledged as a worldwide priority and the specialty of allergy should be considered an important field in medicine. Due to the fact that allergic diseases involve many organs, and Allergy and Clinical Immunology is one of the specialties in which physicians may be trained to treat patients of all ages, the subject in medical schools is not always taught as an individual specialty but often as part of another subject such as internal medicine or pediatrics.

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