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ReviewExperimental and therapeutic medicine2020

Mite allergy and atopic dermatitis: Is there a clear link? (Review).

Roxana Silvia Bumbacea, Sabina Loredana Corcea, Selda Ali, Laura Cristina Dinica, Ioan Serban Fanfaret, Daniel Boda

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Review in Experimental and therapeutic medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Roxana Silvia BumbaceaDepartment of Allergy, 'Dr. Carol Davila' Nefrology Clinical Hospital, 010731 Bucharest, Romania.
Sabina Loredana CorceaDepartment of Physiopathology and Immunology, 'Carol Davila' University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 050474 Bucharest, Romania.
Selda AliDepartment of Allergy, 'Dr. Carol Davila' Nefrology Clinical Hospital, 010731 Bucharest, Romania.
Laura Cristina DinicaDepartment of Allergy, 'Dr. Carol Davila' Nefrology Clinical Hospital, 010731 Bucharest, Romania.
Ioan Serban FanfaretDepartment of Pediatrics, Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans, 45100 Orléans, France.
Daniel BodaDermatology Research Laboratory, 'Carol Davila' University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 050474 Bucharest, Romania.
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy · RO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atopic dermatitis (AD) represents a widespread chronic skin disease associated with different atopic disorders and allergies. These associations, similar to overall AD pathophysiology, are entangled, multifactorial and they are yet to be clarified. IgE and non IgE mediated pathomechanisms appear to be implicated in AD. Allergens constitute key aspects in AD pathogenesis, as they may serve as trigger factors. This review emphasizes mainly house dust mites (HDM), as they are likely the most relevant airborne allergen for AD. Here we review in a concise form the mite allergens, the role of molecular diagnosis and the treatment strategies for HDM. Strategies of avoiding allergens, with a few exceptions, are not enough to control children's AD; recent studies show HDM avoidance procedures in diagnosed AD are insufficient. Regardless, some guidelines acknowledge the benefit of mattress and pillow covers in patients with dust mite sensitization that are unresponsive to optimal AD management. Most clinical trials investigating allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) as a potential treatment for AD were done with adult patients; a scarce number of studies looked into the efficacy of AIT as a treatment option in children suffering from AD, with conflicting data among them. One of the most feasible of these studies showed significant improvement of AD outcomes only in the mild/moderate group, but not in the severe group. Uncontrolled studies are hard to interpret, considering the natural history of remitting and relapsing of AD, in many of the patients, without clinical interventions. More AIT studies, especially pediatric studies, are required in order to either prove the reproducibility of positive results or to deny its effectiveness.

Indexed as

allergen-specific immunotherapyatopic dermatitisavoidance strategiesmite allergensmolecular allergology

Identifiers

PMID32905207
PMCPMC7465295
OpenAlexW3048402252

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