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Allergic conjunctivitis and the most common allergens in Northern Greece
BACKGROUND: Ocular allergies affect a great part of the general population and often co exist with other allergic manifestations. In the present study, the prevalence of allergic conjunctivitis and the commonest allergens in allergic patients at an outpatient unit in Thessaloniki, Greece were evalua...
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World Allergy Organization
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3726364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23866689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-4551-6-12 |
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author | Almaliotis, Diamantis Michailopoulos, Pavlos Gioulekas, Dimitrios Giouleka, Paschalina Papakosta, Despina Siempis, Thomas Karampatakis, Vasileios |
author_facet | Almaliotis, Diamantis Michailopoulos, Pavlos Gioulekas, Dimitrios Giouleka, Paschalina Papakosta, Despina Siempis, Thomas Karampatakis, Vasileios |
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description | BACKGROUND: Ocular allergies affect a great part of the general population and often co exist with other allergic manifestations. In the present study, the prevalence of allergic conjunctivitis and the commonest allergens in allergic patients at an outpatient unit in Thessaloniki, Greece were evaluated. METHODS: This is a retrospective study regarding allergic patients who referred to an outpatient clinic between the 1st of January of 1996 and the 31st of December 2010. They completed relative questionnaires concerning their allergic condition. The patients who were included in our study had allergic conjunctivitis confirmed by ophthalmologists and were divided into 4 groups. The criteria used were the existence of allergic conjunctivitis alone or with other allergic co- morbidities. The patients then underwent skin prick tests after consent according to current guidelines. RESULTS: The archives of 1239 allergic patients were evaluated and 497 patients (40,11%) who manifested eye allergic symptoms were included in our study. 448 patients (90.14%) had allergic conjunctivitis in conjunction with asthma or rhinitis or both. 370 patients underwent skin prick tests and 284 of them (124 males-160 females) were positive for at least 1 of the 8 tested allergens (76.75%). 166 were positive to a grass mix (58.45%), 130 to olea European (45.77%), 124 to dust mites mix (43.66%), 58 to cypress (20.42%), 71 to parietaria officinalis (25.00%), 67 to cat dander (23.59%), 35 to dog dander (12.32%) and 32 to Altenaria (11.26%). CONCLUSIONS: Symptoms of ocular allergy are very common in patients with allergic rhinitis and asthma. Men had slightly higher percentages of positive skin prick tests, except for dog dander and Altenaria. Conjunctivitis should not be overlooked as an allergic entity when evaluating allergic patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-37263642013-07-30 Allergic conjunctivitis and the most common allergens in Northern Greece Almaliotis, Diamantis Michailopoulos, Pavlos Gioulekas, Dimitrios Giouleka, Paschalina Papakosta, Despina Siempis, Thomas Karampatakis, Vasileios World Allergy Organ J Original Research BACKGROUND: Ocular allergies affect a great part of the general population and often co exist with other allergic manifestations. In the present study, the prevalence of allergic conjunctivitis and the commonest allergens in allergic patients at an outpatient unit in Thessaloniki, Greece were evaluated. METHODS: This is a retrospective study regarding allergic patients who referred to an outpatient clinic between the 1st of January of 1996 and the 31st of December 2010. They completed relative questionnaires concerning their allergic condition. The patients who were included in our study had allergic conjunctivitis confirmed by ophthalmologists and were divided into 4 groups. The criteria used were the existence of allergic conjunctivitis alone or with other allergic co- morbidities. The patients then underwent skin prick tests after consent according to current guidelines. RESULTS: The archives of 1239 allergic patients were evaluated and 497 patients (40,11%) who manifested eye allergic symptoms were included in our study. 448 patients (90.14%) had allergic conjunctivitis in conjunction with asthma or rhinitis or both. 370 patients underwent skin prick tests and 284 of them (124 males-160 females) were positive for at least 1 of the 8 tested allergens (76.75%). 166 were positive to a grass mix (58.45%), 130 to olea European (45.77%), 124 to dust mites mix (43.66%), 58 to cypress (20.42%), 71 to parietaria officinalis (25.00%), 67 to cat dander (23.59%), 35 to dog dander (12.32%) and 32 to Altenaria (11.26%). CONCLUSIONS: Symptoms of ocular allergy are very common in patients with allergic rhinitis and asthma. Men had slightly higher percentages of positive skin prick tests, except for dog dander and Altenaria. Conjunctivitis should not be overlooked as an allergic entity when evaluating allergic patients. World Allergy Organization 2013-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3726364/ /pubmed/23866689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-4551-6-12 Text en Copyright ©2013 Almaliotis et al.; 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. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Almaliotis, Diamantis Michailopoulos, Pavlos Gioulekas, Dimitrios Giouleka, Paschalina Papakosta, Despina Siempis, Thomas Karampatakis, Vasileios Allergic conjunctivitis and the most common allergens in Northern Greece |
title | Allergic conjunctivitis and the most common allergens in Northern Greece |
title_full | Allergic conjunctivitis and the most common allergens in Northern Greece |
title_fullStr | Allergic conjunctivitis and the most common allergens in Northern Greece |
title_full_unstemmed | Allergic conjunctivitis and the most common allergens in Northern Greece |
title_short | Allergic conjunctivitis and the most common allergens in Northern Greece |
title_sort | allergic conjunctivitis and the most common allergens in northern greece |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3726364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23866689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-4551-6-12 |
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