Allergic Rhinitis

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  • アレルギー外来の現況
  • A Clinical Survey of 148 Patients
  • 統計学的考察1

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Shigetoshi Horiguchi, Ken-ichi Hisamatsu, Shin-ichi Shimomura, Atsushi Kamijo, Mari Nakazawa, Tsutomu Nakazawa, Tetsuya Ganbo, Kimie Ohmori and Yoshihiko Murakami (Yamanashi Medical University)A clinical survey of 148 outpatients with allergic rhinitis who were treated at our allergy clinic between 1988 and 1992 was retrospectively carried out. The patients were screened for allergy by skin tests (scratch and intractaneous reaction) and IgE-MAST.<BR>The following results were obtained:<BR>1) The mean age on initial examination for male patients was considerably younger (23.7 years)than that for female patients (30.7 years), although there was no essential difference in the number of patients by gender.<BR>2) The younger age group (16 years or younger) tended to show a higher positivity to house dust (HD) or to HD-mite allergen in skin tests than the older age group and a more specific result in this regard was obtained in the IgE-MAST scores as well.<BR>3) There were more patients with a positive response to HD allergen among males than among females and inversely, more positive cases involving Japanese cedar pollen allergen were found among females than among males.<BR>4) Peripheral blood eosinophilia (6% or more eosinophils in differential white blood count) was frequently found in the younger age group. They were usually positive to HD allergen on any of the allergen tests employed at our outpatient clinic.

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