O.V. SKOROKHODKINA¹, A.R. KLUCHAROVA²

¹Republican Clinical Hospital of the MH of RT, 138 Orenburgskiy Trakt, Kazan, Russian Federation, 420064

²Kazan State Medical University, 49 Butlerov St., Kazan, Russian Federation, 420012

Skorokhodkina O.V. — D. Med. Sc., Professor of the Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergology, tel. +7-917-392-50-45, e-mail: olesya-27@rambler.ru

Klyucharova A.R. — Cand. Med. Sc., Assistant of the Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergology, tel. +7-917-282-44-14, e-mail: aliluia@yandex.ru

The article presents the results of a survey 209 patients with chronic urticaria. The most widespread forms of urticaria were spontaneus, physical, cholinergic; allergic form was found only in 2% of cases. The characteristic features of chronic urticaria and duration of persistent urticaria elements among patients of different age groups were determined. It was noted the predominance of physical forms of urticaria among male patients. The dominated chronic urticaria among women was spontaneus. The most common comorbidities among patients with urticaria were identified too. The majority of patients had disease of the gastrointestinal tract, 12.5% of patients were diagnosed autoimmune thyroiditis, and one in ten patients revealed parasitic infestation.

Key words: chronic urticaria, physical forms of urticaria, diagnostic of allergic disease.

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