Frequency Of Autoreactivity Demonstrated By Autologous Serum Skin Test in Patients with Chronic Urticaria in The Valley of Mexico During a Period of 8 Years

Urticaria is a skin disease characterized by rapid emergence of hives, accompanied or not with angioedema. Usually lasts less than 24 hours.  Approximately 12 to 24 per cent of the population will have hives or angioedema at least once in their life. Some patients with chronic urticaria has been classified as autoimmune. The autologous serum skin test (ASST) has been used to show pro-inflammatory circulating endogenous factors and it is regarded as a test for autorreactividad. The autorreactividad does not define an autoimmune urticaria, but may be an indicator of the presence of auto- reactive antibodies with the capacity of to activate the  mast cells however functional antibodies need to be confirmed through of release of basophils histamine test  from  basophils (BHRA) and its specificity immunoassay (Western Blot or ELISA)-confirmed. Objective: to evaluate the auto-reactivity by autologous serum skin test  in patients with chronic urticaria idiopathic in a study of eight years. Material and methods: we made 216 ASST and autologous plasma skin test (APST) in patients with chronic urticaria without specific cause identified, of any age, during the period of 2003 to 2011. Results: 35,000 patients were evaluated only 261 patients not identified the cause (0.6%) and we realized ASST, of these 190 (88%) were negative, and 26 (12%) were positive, 20 (76.9 per cent) were female and 6 (23.1%) male, the median of age for women was 30 years ago with medium of 28 and men average 29 years and median 20. Of the 26 patients one was positive for anti-thyroglobulin senior titles (1: 170) .dos with positive anti unclears and one with pANCA and cANCA positive of a total of 216 patients, 156 (72.2) had APST  and 60 (27.8%) were positive, 46 (76.6%) women and 14 (23.3 per cent) men. Mc Neman concordance between tests  p < 0.0001 and Kappa index gives us a highly significant concordance ,p < 0.0001. The correlation between ASST and APST by  Sperman was high significance value of p < 0.001. The correlation of both tests was moderately high (76.8%).