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T1 Allergic hypersensitivity to cannabis in patients with allergy and illicit drug users
A1 Armentia Medina, Alicia
A1 Castrodeza Sanz, José Javier
A1 Ruiz Muñoz, Pedro
A1 Martínez Quesada, Jorge
A1 Postigo Resa, Idoia
A1 Herrero, Manuel
A1 González Sagrado, Manuel
A1 Martín Armentia, Blanca
A1 Guisantes, Jorge A.
A1 Luis Román, Daniel Antonio de
K1 Cannabis - Alergia
AB : Cannabis is the illicit drug most widely used by young people in high-income countries. Allergy symptoms have only occasionally been reported as one of the adverse health effects of cannabis use.Objectives: To study IgE-mediated response to cannabis in drug users, atopic patients, and healthy controls.Methods: Asthmatic patients sensitised to pollen, and all patients sensitised to tobacco, tomato and latex, considered as cross-reacting allergens, were selected from a data base of 21,582 patients. Drug users attending a drug-rehabilitation clinic were also included. Controls were 200 non-atopic blood donors. Specific IgE determination, prick tests and specific challenge with cannabis extracts were performed in patients and controls.
PB Elsevier-Doyma
SN 0301-0546
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/7217
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/7217
LA eng
NO Allergologia et Immunopathologia, vol.39, n.5. p.271-279.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 12-jul-2024