Safety profile of sublingual immunotherapy

Treatments in Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 225-234

  Passalacqua, Giovanni ^a,b   Guerra, Laura ^a   Fumagalli, Federica ^a   Canonica, Giorgio Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Padiglione Maragliano ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; PLACEBO; RAGWEED ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ASTHMA; CHEILITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG SAFETY; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LARYNX EDEMA; LOCAL SKIN REACTION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MOUTH DISEASE; NAUSEA; ORAL MUCOSAL DISEASE; ORAL PRURITUS; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHINITIS; STOMACH PAIN; TONGUE DISEASE; URTICARIA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DESENSITIZATION; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SUBLINGUAL IMMUNOTHERAPY;

ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; ALLERGENS; ASTHMA; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; HUMANS; SUBLINGUAL IMMUNOTHERAPY; URTICARIA;

EID: 33745905634     PISSN: 11763450     EISSN: 11763450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00151829-200605040-00001     Document Type: Review

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