Corticosteroids, which are potent anti‐inflammatory and immunomodulator agents used in
the treatment of various inflammatory diseases including allergic diseases, can in some …

Asthma affects approximately 300 million individuals worldwide. Medications comprise a
substantial portion of asthma expenditures. Despite the availability of three primary …

Clinically, erythema multiforme involves macular, papular or urticarial lesions, as well as the
classical iris or 'target lesions', distributed preferentially on the distal extremities. Lesions …

Background: Corticosteroids may cause immediate or delayed hypersensitivity. In 1989,
based on structural and clinical characteristics, we put forward a classification of …

Background. Corticosteroids (CS), anti‐inflammatory drugs also widely used to treat various
allergic diseases, may themselves give rise to immediate and delayed allergic …

Background Immediate hypersensitivity to corticosteroids is reported to occur with an
incidence of 0.1%. The largest previous case series reporting corticosteroid skin testing has …

Contact allergy to topical corticosteroids should be considered in all patients who do not
respond to, or are made worse by, the use of topical steroids. The incidence of steroid …

Background: Inhalation corticosteroids (CSs), despite their wide use, rarely cause
sensitization in subjects administering them. Objective: To determine the cause of …

Materials and methods We reviewed the clinical data and the results of patch testing to an
extended corticosteroid series in the Dermatology department at the KU Leuven University …

In the last few decades, glucocorticoids have received increasing attention for their
capability of provoking systemic hypersensitivity reactions, when administered orally …