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Correlation Among Skin Prick Test, Total and Specific IgE UniCAP Tests in Atopic Patients from Zagreb, Croatia
Višnja Milavec-Puretić
; Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Jasna Lipozenčić
; Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Vesna Žižić
; Zagreb Children's Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Dinko Milavec
; Dubrava University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Sažetak
The correlation of pollen allergens, Dermatophagoides pteronys sinus and animal dender was as sessed during a two-year period. Results of skin prick test, total and specific IgE UniCAP tests were compared in atopic patients (AP) with the following diagnoses: atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis, allergic conjuncti vitis, allergic bronchitis or asthma, allergic urticaria and angioedema. The study in cluded to tal and specific IgE (in vi tro) tests to allergen mixtures (grass, tree, weed) or to single allerens of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Der p), cat and dog fur, feather, etc. Comparison of skin prick test with total and specific IgE UniCAP immunoassay was done in 173 patients, i.e. 107 female and 66 male atopic patients aged 9-76 years. Allergies were most commonly recorded in the 25-35 age group. Total IgE ranged from 8.63 kU/l to >4000 kU/l, with specific IgE rang ing from class 1 to class 5. Skin prick test showed high correlation with specific IgE for grass and weed pollen in patients with repiratory allergy (50.28%). Good correlation among all three tests was quite frequently ob served. The results suggest that the study should be continued using these three tests in further cases of atopic dermatitis.
Ključne riječi
test correlation; skinprick test; total IgE UniCAP; specific IgE UniCAP; atopic patients
Hrčak ID:
88549
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Datum izdavanja:
1.4.2004.
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