Saturday, 14 December 2013: 10:45 - 11:05
Great Lakes Grand Ballroom West (Westin - Michigan Avenue)
Désirée Larenas-Linnemann, MD, FAAAAI, Dist. Intl FACAAI
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Hospital Médica Sur, Mexico City, Mexico
Learning Objectives:
Identify how stratification of patients by allergen sensitization as well as by therapeutic response opens new ways of selecting patients for SIT and SLIT.
Identify how stratification of patients by allergen sensitization as well as by therapeutic response opens new ways of selecting patients for SIT and SLIT.
Explain the improved safety of SLIT over SIT and its use outside healthcare settings as well as its role early in life and in older children.
Review evidence of experts' experience with SCIT in patients with medical conditions historically considered contraindications for SIT (e.g. young age, cancer in remision, HIV seropositivity, e.o.)