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EAACI position paper on the standardization of nasal allergen challenges

(2018) ALLERGY. 73(8). p.1597-1608
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Nasal allergen challenge (NAC) is an important tool to diagnose allergic rhinitis. In daily clinical routine, experimentally, or when measuring therapeutic success clinically, nasal allergen challenge is fundamental. It is further one of the key diagnostic tools when initiating specific allergen immunotherapy. So far, national recommendations offered guidance on its execution; however, international divergence left many questions unanswered. These differences in the literature caused EAACI to initiate a task force to answer unmet needs and find a consensus in executing nasal allergen challenge. On the basis of a systematic review containing nasal allergen challenges of the past years, task force members reviewed evidence, discussed open issues, and studied variations of several subjective and objective assessment parameters to propose a standardized way of a nasal allergen challenge procedure in clinical practice. Besides an update on indications, contraindications, and preparations for the test procedure, main recommendations are a bilaterally challenge with standardized allergens, with a spray device offering 0.1mL per nostril. A systematic catalogue for positivity criteria is given for the variety of established subjective and objective assessment methods as well as a schedule for the challenge procedure. The task force recommends a unified protocol for NAC for daily clinical practice, aiming at eliminating the previous difficulty of comparing NAC results due to unmet needs.
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allergic rhinitis, diagnostic tools, nasal allergen challenge, nasal provocation test, CLINICAL-IMMUNOLOGY, PROVOCATION TEST, NONALLERGIC RHINITIS, RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS COMMITTEE, OCCUPATIONAL RHINITIS, ACOUSTIC RHINOMETRY, IDIOPATHIC RHINITIS, EUROPEAN ACADEMY, SPANISH SOCIETY, DOUBLE-BLIND

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MLA
Augé, J., et al. “EAACI Position Paper on the Standardization of Nasal Allergen Challenges.” ALLERGY, vol. 73, no. 8, 2018, pp. 1597–608, doi:10.1111/all.13416.
APA
Augé, J., Vent, J., Agache, I., Airaksinen, L., Campo Mozo, P., Chaker, A., … Mösges, R. (2018). EAACI position paper on the standardization of nasal allergen challenges. ALLERGY, 73(8), 1597–1608. https://doi.org/10.1111/all.13416
Chicago author-date
Augé, J, J Vent, I Agache, L Airaksinen, P Campo Mozo, A Chaker, C Cingi, et al. 2018. “EAACI Position Paper on the Standardization of Nasal Allergen Challenges.” ALLERGY 73 (8): 1597–1608. https://doi.org/10.1111/all.13416.
Chicago author-date (all authors)
Augé, J, J Vent, I Agache, L Airaksinen, P Campo Mozo, A Chaker, C Cingi, S Durham, W Fokkens, Philippe Gevaert, A Giotakis, P Hellings, M Herknerova, V Hox, L Klimek, C La Melia, J Mullol, NB Muluk, A Muraro, K Naito, O Pfaar, H Riechelmann, C Rondon, M Rudenko, B Samolinski, I Tasca, P Tomazic, K Vogt, M Wagenmann, G Yeryomenko, L Zhang, and R Mösges. 2018. “EAACI Position Paper on the Standardization of Nasal Allergen Challenges.” ALLERGY 73 (8): 1597–1608. doi:10.1111/all.13416.
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Augé J, Vent J, Agache I, Airaksinen L, Campo Mozo P, Chaker A, et al. EAACI position paper on the standardization of nasal allergen challenges. ALLERGY. 2018;73(8):1597–608.
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J. Augé et al., “EAACI position paper on the standardization of nasal allergen challenges,” ALLERGY, vol. 73, no. 8, pp. 1597–1608, 2018.
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