All Things Urticaria Podcast

Professor Marcus Maurer is joined by Dr Melba Munoz to take a deep dive into symptomatic dermographism. The discussion aims to explain the involvement of mast cells in CSU patients and attempts to answer some ongoing questions to help unravel the pathogenesis of dermographism in chronic urticaria.

Dr Pavel Kolkhir joins Professor Marcus Maurer to discuss the Chronic Urticaria Registry (CURE). The discussion includes explanations of the aims of CURE in collecting quality, real-life data on chronic urticaria patient characteristics, the course of disease, underlying causes, comorbidities, treatment responses, quality of life impairment and health care costs.

Professor Alicja Kasperska-Zajac joins Professor Marcus Maurer to discuss a rare form of chronic inducible urticaria – delayed pressure urticaria. The discussion highlights the difficulties in undertaking differential diagnosis and the main differences when compared to chronic spontaneous urticaria, namely the absence of oedema and wheals.

Professor Yoshimichi Okayama joins Professor Marcus Maurer to discuss the role which mast cells play in the disease aetiology of chronic spontaneous urticaria. In particular, the discussion focuses on mast cell receptors and how they can be utilised in the diagnosis of CSU.

Professor Marcus Maurer is joined by Professor Asli Gelincik as they discuss recurrent angioedema in chronic spontaneous urticaria, and treatment options which are currently available to alleviate this pathology. The mechanistic actions of mast cell-mediated angioedema and bradykinin-mediated angioedema are discussed and their implications are analysed.

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Dr Heike Röckmann, head of the drug survivability of omalizumab in chronic urticaria (DruSO-CU) project joins Professor Marcus Maurer to discuss the global project, the difficulties which were encountered, and how the UCARE network helped overcome these challenges. The focus of this podcast is on the importance of identifying the data in this important project.

In this episode, Professor Silvia Ferrucci joins Professor Marcus Maurer in discussing what the phrase ‘Never Give Up’ means to physicians treating urticaria, and for patients embarking on their treatment journey. Areas of special focus are given to guideline treatment algorithms and the implementation of the CRUSE app and Chronic Urticaria Registry (CURE) as tools to shift the balance of treating urticaria

Professor Marcus Maurer is joined by Professor Luis Felipe Ensina where they discuss the founding days of urticaria treatment, and how urticaria clinics became available. Professor Maurer and Professor Ensina discussed how the treatment landscape, diagnostic techniques and further developments in the advancement of how clinicians treat patients with urticaria have evolved over the last two decades.