title: [Pollen asthma].
abstract: In a group of 38 patients with typical symptoms of pollen asthma, 34 pollen allergens were used attempting to determine what kinds of pollen most frequently occurred as causative agents leading to senzibilization in patients from the area of Banija. In subsequent procedure, positivity of cutaneous tests was found to correlate with the blood level of specific IgE (RAST), whereby a high percentage of consistent results was observed. Although polysensibilization is an important problem in the etiological diagnosis of this disease, we are inclined to believe the case history data supported by the results of allergometric tests to be quite sufficient to establish a relation between individual pollens and disease symptoms. Thus, allergologic examinations should involve accurate detection of the largest number of causative agents possible to allow both successful prophylaxis and specific immunologic treatment.
authors.affiliation: Bolnica za plućne bolesti i tbc, Petrinja.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vrga
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D011058:Pollen; D011852:Radioallergosorbent Test; D012882:Skin Tests
vernacular_title: Polenska astma.