Aquagenic urticaria in twins

We describe the case of 18 year old twin brothers who presented to our unit with a 3 year history of aquagenic urticaria. This rare form of urticaria usually presents within an hour of contact with water. The aetiology is unknown. Most cases are sporadic but there are a small number of familial case...

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Autores principales: Kai, Anneke C, Flohr, Carsten
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: World Allergy Organization 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3646536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23663417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-4551-6-2
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description We describe the case of 18 year old twin brothers who presented to our unit with a 3 year history of aquagenic urticaria. This rare form of urticaria usually presents within an hour of contact with water. The aetiology is unknown. Most cases are sporadic but there are a small number of familial cases in the medical literature. A specific genetic mutation has not yet been found. To our knowledge, this is the first report of aquagenic urticaria in monozygotic twins, further supporting a genetic component to this disease.
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spelling pubmed-36465362013-05-08 Aquagenic urticaria in twins Kai, Anneke C Flohr, Carsten World Allergy Organ J Case Report We describe the case of 18 year old twin brothers who presented to our unit with a 3 year history of aquagenic urticaria. This rare form of urticaria usually presents within an hour of contact with water. The aetiology is unknown. Most cases are sporadic but there are a small number of familial cases in the medical literature. A specific genetic mutation has not yet been found. To our knowledge, this is the first report of aquagenic urticaria in monozygotic twins, further supporting a genetic component to this disease. World Allergy Organization 2013-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3646536/ /pubmed/23663417 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-4551-6-2 Text en Copyright ©2013 Kai and Flohr; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3646536/
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