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Practice Guideline
. 2019 Aug 15;45(1):101.
doi: 10.1186/s13052-019-0695-x.

Management of chronic urticaria in children: a clinical guideline

Carlo Caffarelli  1 , Francesco Paravati  2 , Maya El Hachem  3 , Marzia Duse  4 , Marcello Bergamini  5 , Giovanni Simeone  6 , Massimo Barbagallo  7 , Roberto Bernardini  8 , Paolo Bottau  9 , Filomena Bugliaro  10 , Silvia Caimmi  11 , Fernanda Chiera  2 , Giuseppe Crisafulli  12 , Cristiana De Ranieri  13 , Dora Di Mauro  14 , Andrea Diociaiuti  3 , Fabrizio Franceschini  15 , Massimo Gola  16 , Amelia Licari  11 , Lucia Liotti  17 , Carla Mastrorilli  18 , Domenico Minasi  19 , Francesca Mori  20 , Iria Neri  21 , Aurelia Pantaleo  22 , Francesca Saretta  23   24 , Carlo Filippo Tesi  10 , Giovanni Corsello  25 , Gian Luigi Marseglia  11 , Alberto Villani  26 , Fabio Cardinale  27
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Practice Guideline

Management of chronic urticaria in children: a clinical guideline

Carlo Caffarelli et al. Ital J Pediatr. .

Abstract

The aim of this guidance is to provide recommendations to clinicians and other interested parties on chronic urticaria in children. The Italian Society for Pediatrics (SIP), the Italian Society for Allergy and Immunology (SIAIP), the Italian Society for Pediatric dermatology (SIDerP) convened a multidisciplinary panel that prepared clinical guidelines for diagnosis and management of chronic urticaria in childhood. Key questions on epidemiology, natural history, diagnosis, and management were developed. The literature was systematically searched and evaluated, recommendations were rated and algorithms for diagnosis and treatment were developed. The recommendations focus on identification of diseases and comorbidities, strategies to recognize triggering factors, improvement of treatment by individualized care.

Keywords: Allergy; Angioedema; Children; Chronic spontaneous urticaria; Chronic urticaria; Inducible uricaria; Management; Omalizumab; Pathogenesis; Pediatric; Therapy; Urticaria.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Algorithm for diagnosis of subtypes of CU
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Treatment of CU in children. *off-label
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