Urticaria: modern data on pathogenesis, classification and therapy
A.A. Cheburkin
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Further Professional Education “Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education” of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
ALLERGOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY IN PEDIATRICS, Volume 54 • Number 3 • September 2018, pp. 4 – 13
DOI: 10.24411/2500-1175-2018-00011
In recent years, it has been revealed that, despite an identical clinical picture, there is a wide range of subtypes of urticaria and they differ depending on not only provocative factors, but also have different pathogenetic mechanisms in a basis. Urticaria needs to be differentiated from other diseases where wheals, angioedema are symptoms of the main disease including urticarial vasculitis, anaphylaxis, some autoinflammatory syndromes, hereditary angioedema. In this case the basic method of treatment is therapy of the main disease. At a spontaneous urticaria a basis of therapy are H1-anthistamines, from which it is distinguished cetirizine because of its specific properties: besides antihistaminic effect his anti-inflammatory action is established.
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Cheburkin AA. Urticaria: modern data on pathogenesis, classification and therapy. Allergology and Immunology in Pediatrics. 2018;54(3):4-13. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24411/2500-1175-2018-00011
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