As preparations are ongoing for our EAACI Digital Congress 2020, we are pleased to give you a preview of some of the exciting science you will be able to discover from the safety of your homes.
Please join us on June 6th at 20:00 – 21:00 CET, when you will be able to tune in and participate in the EAACI Digital Congress 2020 Opening Keynote Symposium on “Solutions and challenges in modern medicine“, which will bring together leading figures in our community – the Nobel Prize Laureate Sir Gregory Winter (UK), Peter Openshaw (UK), and EAACI President Marek Jutel (PL).
The session will be moderated by EAACI Digital Congress 2020’s Chair, Mohamed Shamji (UK), and Marek Jutel. Some of the learning objectives will be:
To describe the journey of biologicals in modern medicine
To describe and outline the impact of COVID-19 in health and respiratory airway diseaseImmune modulation strategy in the management of COVID-19
The symposium will then be followed by a Q&A session. Make sure to participate in this very interesting scientific session!
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Read now the latest issue of the EAACI Newsletter –
Issue 58
Eager to get the latest news on our activities, events,
and perspectives from the EAACI Family? Read our latest issue of the EAACI
Newsletter which features a glimpse into the exciting
programme of the upcoming Digital Congress, COVID-19 viewpoints
from our doctors and researchers on the frontline, and much more!
Over the past few months
EAACI has created a completely free COVID-19 Resource Centre where
new articles are uploaded highlighting new research findings. Additionally,
since information is constantly changing and there is a high demand to
discuss and exchange experiences and observations, EAACI has now created a
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Highlighted EAACI COVID-19 Resource Centre article: COVID‐19 Clinical trials: quality matters more than quantity. Read more…
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Allergy and asthma in children and adolescents during the COVID outbreak: what we know and how we could prevent allergy and asthma flares? Read more… EAACI and its entire community are happy to support health workers during these challenging times by providing free-to-access information!
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is essentially the most frequent and aggressive major mind tumor in adults.
Regardless of in depth remedy the prognosis for GBM sufferers stays poor and the extraordinary remedy resistance has been attributed to intertumoral heterogeneity of glioblastoma.
Completely different prognostic related GBM tumor subtypes have been recognized primarily based on their molecular profile. This strategy, nonetheless, neglects the heterogeneity inside particular person tumors, that’s, the intratumoral heterogeneity. Right here, we detected the regional immunoreactivity by immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence utilizing 9 completely different markers on resected GBM specimens (IDH wildtype, WHO grade IV).
We discovered repetitive expression profiles, that may very well be labeled into clusters. These clusters may then be assigned to 5 pathophysiologically related teams that mirror the beforehand described subclasses of GBM, together with mesenchymal, classical, and proneural subtype.
Our knowledge point out the presence of tumor differentiations and tumor subclasses that happen inside particular person tumors, and would possibly subsequently contribute to develop tailored, individual-based therapies.
The Intratumoral Heterogeneity Reflects the Intertumoral Subtypes of Glioblastoma Multiforme: A Regional Immunohistochemistry Analysis.
Diagnostic Accuracy of Immunohistochemistry for Mismatch Restore Proteins as Surrogate of Microsatellite Instability Molecular Testing in Endometrial Most cancers.
Microsatellite instability (MSI) defines one of many 4 molecular teams of endometrial carcinoma recognized by The Most cancers Genome Atlas (TCGA). Immunohistochemistry for mismatch restore (MMR) proteins (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2) has been proposed as a extensively relevant approach to establish this group within the frequent observe.
Nonetheless, the diagnostic accuracy of such strategy has by no means been calculated. We aimed to evaluate: 1) the diagnostic accuracy of MMR proteins immunohistochemistry as surrogate of MSI molecular testing in endometrial carcinoma;
2) whether or not a mix of solely two MMR proteins could also be used as a nonetheless cheaper take a look at. A scientific evaluate and meta-analysis of was carried out by looking out digital databases from their inception to September 2019.
All research assessing endometrial carcinoma with each MMR proteins immunohistochemistry and MSI molecular testing have been included. Diagnostic accuracy was assessed as sensitivity, specificity, constructive and unfavorable probability ratios (LR+, LR-), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) and space below the curve (AUC) on SROC curves.
A subgroup evaluation was carried out for a mix of solely two MMR proteins (MLH1-MSH2 vs MSH6-PMS2). Ten research with 3097 sufferers have been included. Out of those, 1110 have been appropriate for the meta-analysis. Immunohistochemistry for all of the 4 MMR proteins confirmed sensitivity = 0.96, specificity = 0.95, LR + =17.7, LR- = 0.05, DOR = 429.77, and excessive diagnostic accuracy (AUC = 0.988).
The mixture of MLH1 and MSH2 confirmed sensitivity = 0.88, specificity = 0.96, LR + =22.36, LR- = 0.15, DOR = 200.69, and excessive diagnostic accuracy (AUC = 0.9838). The mixture of MSH6 and PMS2 confirmed the identical outcomes as the whole panel of 4 MMR proteins.
In conclusion, MMR proteins immunohistochemistry is a extremely correct surrogate of MSI molecular testing in endometrial carcinoma. A mix of MSH6 and PMS2 might permit lowering the associated fee with out lower within the diagnostic accuracy.
The excessive prevalence of allergic ailments warrants for adequate well being care provisions out there to sufferers with allergic ailments. Allergy care must be delivered by well-trained specialists.
Nonetheless, the present standing of allergy care is just not effectively documented. Because of this a survey amongst European and some non-European international locations was launched by the Nationwide Allergy Society Committee from the European Academy of Allergy and Medical Immunology and the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes part and board of Allergology.
The survey exhibits that within the overwhelming majority of nations allergy care providers can be found. Nonetheless, a considerable heterogeneity is reported concerning recognition of the complete specialty, the variety of training specialists or subspecialists, and coaching elements.
Progress but in addition decline of specialty and subspecialties is reported. As well as, the survey offers perception in strengths, weaknesses, alternatives and threats on this area. It seems that the popularity of the complete specialty determines energy in addition to weak point.
Ageing of specialists mixed with a decline within the variety of trainees type a significant risk.
Alternatives are seen in creating consciousness for allergy, give attention to attracting younger physicians. The conclusion is that harmonization of allergy providers throughout Europe is required. Funding in younger medical doctors, creating new alternatives and lobbying for the complete specialty is required.
The roadmap for the Allergology specialty and allergy care in Europe and adjacent countries. An EAACI position paper.
The place paper of the Polish Society of Allergology on local weather modifications, pure disasters and allergy and bronchial asthma.
The noticed world local weather change is an indeniable explanation for the elevated frequency of maximum climate occasions and associated pure disasters. This phenomenon is noticed all around the world together with Poland.
Furthermore, Polish residents as vacationers are additionally uncovered to local weather phenomena that don’t happen in our local weather zone. Excessive climate occasions and associated disasters can have a major impression on folks with allergic ailments, together with bronchial asthma.
These results could also be related to the publicity to air air pollution, allergens, and particular microclimate circumstances.
Underneath the auspices of the Polish Society of Allergology, specialists within the area of environmental allergy ready a press release on local weather modifications, pure disasters and allergy and bronchial asthma to cut back the danger of antagonistic well being occasions provoked by local weather and climate components.
The rules comprise the outline of the components associated to local weather modifications and pure disasters affecting the course of allergic ailments, the precise microclimate circumstances and the suggestions of the Polish Society of Allergology for weak inhabitants, sufferers affected by bronchial asthma and allergy ailments, allergologists and authorities within the occasion of local weather and climate hazards.
Extreme bronchial asthma requires not less than excessive doses of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) together with a long-acting β-agonist (LABA) or systemic corticosteroids (SCS) for greater than 50% of days/12 months to keep away from lack of management, or stays uncontrolled regardless of the remedy described above.
The analysis of extreme bronchial asthma needs to be confirmed in a reference centre because it requires cautious differential analysis and the exclusion of things hindering the achievement of optimum management.
Extreme bronchial asthma represents a major burden for the affected person, their household and the healthcare system. That is as a result of severity of the signs, drug prices, important impairment of on a regular basis functioning and life high quality, and limitation within the skilled work.
Within the case of ineffectiveness of the step Four GINA remedy, the affected person needs to be referred to a specialist centre to contemplate extra remedy, together with anti-IgE receptor (omalizumab), anti-IL-5 receptor (mepolizumab), or an antibody directed towards the α-subunit of receptor for IL-5 (benralizumab). Within the case of extreme bronchial asthma, intensification of remedy ought to start with embrace organic remedy and never using SCS.
Organic medication can be found in Poland as part of the therapeutic programme for the remedy of extreme bronchial asthma. In apply, the therapeutic programme could change with subsequent notices of the Ministry of Well being and doesn’t must be in keeping with the Abstract of Product Traits for particular person preparations.
The present assessment presents the fundamental ideas of differential analysis of extreme bronchial asthma and the choice of the optimum organic remedy in Polish situations.
Polish Society of Allergology statement on the diagnosis and treatment of severe, difficult-to-control bronchial asthma.
Scientific options, perpetrator medication, and allergology workup in 41 instances of fastened drug eruption.
Mounted drug eruption (FDE) represents a drug-related cutaneous response. Many medication been related to this medical entity, with frequently evolving documentation of implicated brokers and medical shows.
Bullous kind can happen though it’s uncommon.To evaluate the epidemiological and medical traits of FDE.We retrospectively analysed all FDE instances who offered to the Scientific Pharmacology Division on the College Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia, for allergy workup.
The imply age of the 41 confirmed FDE instances was 43.8 ± 15.5 years. The time between first lesion onset and FDE analysis was lower than 1 month for 13 sufferers (31.7%). Fifteen sufferers had bullous lesions.
The higher limbs have been the most typical location (65.9% of instances). The patch checks have been constructive in 27 instances; a provocation check yielded a constructive response within the 4 instances examined.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication (NSAIDs) have been concerned in 51.2%, antibiotics in 24.4%, and different analgesics in 19.5%.
The most typical offending drug was mefenamic acid in 24.4% of instances. Bullous lesions have been considerably related to paracetamol consumption (P = .014; odds ratio 16.7; 95% confidence interval: 1.76-158).NSAIDs and antibiotics have been essentially the most implicated in inducing FDE; paracetamol was related to bullous lesions.
