Journal of Allergy & Therapy

Elena Makrì

Publications

• Case Report
  When Allergen Immunotherapy Perfectly Meets its Need: A Case Report
  Author(s): Elisa Boni, Cristoforo Incorvaia, Elena Makrì, Donatella Preziosi and Marina Mauro Elisa Boni, Cristoforo Incorvaia, Elena Makrì, Donatella Preziosi and Marina Mauro
  
  Seasonal, pollen-induced allergic rhinitis can be managed by symptomatic drug treatment, but only allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is able to work on the causes of allergy. Usually, the effectiveness of AIT is assessed by clinical criteria, though the ideal outcome is to lose the allergic sensitization to the administered allergen(s). Here we report the case of a patient who after three years of AIT using a grass pollen extract containing Phleum pratense, Dactilys glomerata, Anthoxanthum odoratum, Poa pratensis and Lolium perenne but not Cynodon dactylon, to which the patient was also sensitized, developed a negative response to allergy tests to the administered allergens. After 3 years of SCIT, the patient was free of both nose and lung symptoms during the grass pollen season and had negative results to the pollens included in the extract, while C. dactylon showed a d.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-6121.1000259

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