[From psychosomatic disorder to autoimmune disease--50 years urticaria and Quincke edema].
While the hereditary angioneurotic edema is a rare but serious disorder 10 to 25% of the population experience urticaria during a lifetime. Urticaria is for the patient a very impressive disease. He therefore has a great desire to know its cause. In acute urticaria this is usually possible since drugs or specific foods are the most common triggers. In chronic urticaria the search for a cause is much more difficult and successful only in 20 to 30% of cases. Over the past years it has been proven that about 30% of patients with chronic urticaria have antibodies against the high affinity Fc-receptor of mast cells. Thus a fraction of patients with chronic urticaria formerly often associated with psychosomatic illness suffer in fact from an autoimmune disorder.
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D000799:Angioedema / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D007428:Intradermal Tests; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014581:Urticaria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology
Vom psychosomatischen Leiden zur Autoimmunerkrankung--50 Jahre Urtikaria und Quincke-Odem.