LATEX sensitization in elderly: allergological study and diagnostic protocol

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of latex allergy varies according to the population studied from 3% to 64%. No data exist in the present literature about elderly people because they were not considered among populations at risk. We report a retrospective observational study of 88 elderly patients of our...

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Autores principales: Grieco, Teresa, Faina, Valentina, Dies, Laura, Milana, Marzio, Silvestri, Emidio, Calvieri, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Methodology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4017681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24822075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4933-11-7
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author Grieco, Teresa
Faina, Valentina
Dies, Laura
Milana, Marzio
Silvestri, Emidio
Calvieri, Stefano
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Faina, Valentina
Dies, Laura
Milana, Marzio
Silvestri, Emidio
Calvieri, Stefano
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description BACKGROUND: The prevalence of latex allergy varies according to the population studied from 3% to 64%. No data exist in the present literature about elderly people because they were not considered among populations at risk. We report a retrospective observational study of 88 elderly patients of our centre of Dermatology and Allergology at Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome, Sapienza. RESULTS: First and second level diagnostic tests showed latex positivity in 11,4% of patients studied for latex allergy in the elderly population. CONCLUSIONS: Our study demonstrates a prevalence of elderly-latex sensitization of 11,4%, showing that allergy to latex is a growing disease that can occur at any age. So, we propose these patients as an additional risk category for latex allergy.
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spelling pubmed-40176812014-05-13 LATEX sensitization in elderly: allergological study and diagnostic protocol Grieco, Teresa Faina, Valentina Dies, Laura Milana, Marzio Silvestri, Emidio Calvieri, Stefano Immun Ageing Methodology BACKGROUND: The prevalence of latex allergy varies according to the population studied from 3% to 64%. No data exist in the present literature about elderly people because they were not considered among populations at risk. We report a retrospective observational study of 88 elderly patients of our centre of Dermatology and Allergology at Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome, Sapienza. RESULTS: First and second level diagnostic tests showed latex positivity in 11,4% of patients studied for latex allergy in the elderly population. CONCLUSIONS: Our study demonstrates a prevalence of elderly-latex sensitization of 11,4%, showing that allergy to latex is a growing disease that can occur at any age. So, we propose these patients as an additional risk category for latex allergy. BioMed Central 2014-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4017681/ /pubmed/24822075 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4933-11-7 Text en Copyright © 2014 Grieco 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 credited.
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Grieco, Teresa
Faina, Valentina
Dies, Laura
Milana, Marzio
Silvestri, Emidio
Calvieri, Stefano
LATEX sensitization in elderly: allergological study and diagnostic protocol
title LATEX sensitization in elderly: allergological study and diagnostic protocol
title_full LATEX sensitization in elderly: allergological study and diagnostic protocol
title_fullStr LATEX sensitization in elderly: allergological study and diagnostic protocol
title_full_unstemmed LATEX sensitization in elderly: allergological study and diagnostic protocol
title_short LATEX sensitization in elderly: allergological study and diagnostic protocol
title_sort latex sensitization in elderly: allergological study and diagnostic protocol
topic Methodology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4017681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24822075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4933-11-7
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