Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35080302›Full record

ArticlePediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology2022

Safety of allergen-specific immunotherapy in children.

Maria De Filippo, Martina Votto, Lucia Caminiti, Ilenia Panasiti, Francesco Carella, Giovanna De Castro, Massimo Landi, Roberta Olcese, Mario Vernich, Gian Luigi Marseglia and 2 more

Open access · hybridAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Trial
  4. Review
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Microneedles in Allergy Immunotherapy: the Present and Future.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2025
    Review
  8. Article
  9. Frontiers in immunology · 2025
    Article
  10. Review
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Safety of allergen-specific immunotherapy in children.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2022
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Maria De FilippoPediatric Clinic, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2900-9642
Martina VottoPediatric Clinic, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4271-8649
Lucia CaminitiDepartment of Pediatrics, Allergy Unit, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3054-5338
Ilenia PanasitiDepartment of Pediatrics, Allergy Unit, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Francesco CarellaPaediatric Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico Giovanni XXIII, Bari, Italy.
Giovanna De CastroDepartment of Pediatrics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Massimo LandiTurin - Istituto di Biomedicina e Immunologia molecolare, Pediatric National Healthcare System, Italian National Research Council, Palermo, Italy.
Roberta OlceseAllergy Center, Department of Pediatrics, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy.
Mario VernichPediatric Unit, ASST-Rhodense, RHO Milan, Italy.
Gian Luigi MarsegliaPediatric Clinic, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3662-0159
Giorgio CiprandiDepartment of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7016-8421
Salvatore BarberiAllergy Center, Department of Pediatrics, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy.
University of Pavia · ITIstituto Giannina Gaslini · ITUniversity of Messina · ITIstituto di Biomedicina e di Immunologia Molecolare Alberto Monroy · ITOspedale Pediatrico Giovanni XXIII · ITRhodes University · ZASapienza University of Rome · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Allergic respiratory diseases, such as asthma and allergic rhinitis, are global health issues and have had an increasing prevalence in the last decades. Allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) is the only curative treatment for allergic rhinitis and asthma, as it has a disease-modifying effect. AIT is generally administered by two routes: subcutaneous (SCIT) and sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT). Local side effects are common, but usually well-tolerated and self-limited. However, systemic side effects are rare, and associated with uncontrolled asthma and bronchial obstruction, or related to errors in administration. Physicians should constantly assess potential risk factors for not only reporting systemic reactions and fatalities but also implementing other therapies to improve AIT safety. This paper highlights recent evidence on local and systemic reactions related to SCIT and SLIT in children.

Indexed as

AsthmaRhinitis, AllergicSublingual ImmunotherapyAllergensChildDesensitization, ImmunologicHumansInjections, SubcutaneousAllergensadverse eventsallergen immunotherapy (AIT)anaphylaxissafetysubcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT)sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT)

Identifiers

PMID35080302
PMCPMC9544714
OpenAlexW4210795473

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.