Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) - Indications, mechanism, and efficacy: Position paper prepared by the section of immunotherapy, polish society of allergy

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 44-53

  Jutel, Marek ^a   Bartkowiak Emeryk, Małgorzata ^b   Bręborowicz, Anna ^c   Cichocka Jarosz, Ewa ^d   Emeryk, Andrzej ^b   Gawlik, Radosław ^e   Gonerko, Paweł ^f   Rogala, Barbara ^e   Nowak Węgrzyn, Anna ^g   Samoliński, Bolesław ^h  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^c POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^f Allergy and Pulmonology ^*  (Poland)

^g MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adult; Allergen therapeutic use; Child; Desensitization; Immunologic methods

Indexed keywords

GRASS POLLEN EXTRACT; GRASS POLLEN VACCINE; STALORAL 300; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; DENDRITIC CELL; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EAR PRURITUS; EDEMA; FOOD ALLERGY; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIP SWELLING; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOUTH SWELLING; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; ORAL PRURITUS; PARIETARIA; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; SENSITIZATION; SUBLINGUAL IMMUNOTHERAPY; SWELLING; THROAT IRRITATION; TONGUE SWELLING; TREATMENT DURATION; URTICARIA; UVULAR EDEMA; VOMITING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; POLAND; STANDARDS;

HUMANS; POLAND; SUBLINGUAL IMMUNOTHERAPY;

EID: 84960955209     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5604/12321966.1196851     Document Type: Review

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