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Chronic urticaria in most patients is poorly controlled

Results of the development, validation, and real life application of the arabic urticaria control test

Carla Irani, Souheil Hallit, Karsten Weller, Marcus Maurer, Carla El Haber and Pascale Salameh
Saudi Medical Journal December 2017, 38 (12) 1230-1236; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.12.21206
Carla Irani
From the Hotel-Dieu de France (Irani, El Haber), Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), St Joseph University, from the Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), Faculty of Medicine (Salameh), Lebanese University, Beirut, from the Research Department (Hallit), Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal Eddib, from the Faculty of Medicine (Hallit), Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon, from the Division of Pulmonary Medicine (Irani), University of Alberta Hospital, Alberta, Canada, and from the Department of Dermatology and Allergy (Weller, Maurer), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Allergie-Centrum Charité, Charite, Berlin
MD, FAAAAI
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Souheil Hallit
From the Hotel-Dieu de France (Irani, El Haber), Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), St Joseph University, from the Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), Faculty of Medicine (Salameh), Lebanese University, Beirut, from the Research Department (Hallit), Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal Eddib, from the Faculty of Medicine (Hallit), Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon, from the Division of Pulmonary Medicine (Irani), University of Alberta Hospital, Alberta, Canada, and from the Department of Dermatology and Allergy (Weller, Maurer), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Allergie-Centrum Charité, Charite, Berlin
MSc, MPH
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Karsten Weller
From the Hotel-Dieu de France (Irani, El Haber), Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), St Joseph University, from the Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), Faculty of Medicine (Salameh), Lebanese University, Beirut, from the Research Department (Hallit), Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal Eddib, from the Faculty of Medicine (Hallit), Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon, from the Division of Pulmonary Medicine (Irani), University of Alberta Hospital, Alberta, Canada, and from the Department of Dermatology and Allergy (Weller, Maurer), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Allergie-Centrum Charité, Charite, Berlin
MD, PhD
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Marcus Maurer
From the Hotel-Dieu de France (Irani, El Haber), Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), St Joseph University, from the Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), Faculty of Medicine (Salameh), Lebanese University, Beirut, from the Research Department (Hallit), Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal Eddib, from the Faculty of Medicine (Hallit), Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon, from the Division of Pulmonary Medicine (Irani), University of Alberta Hospital, Alberta, Canada, and from the Department of Dermatology and Allergy (Weller, Maurer), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Allergie-Centrum Charité, Charite, Berlin
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Carla El Haber
From the Hotel-Dieu de France (Irani, El Haber), Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), St Joseph University, from the Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), Faculty of Medicine (Salameh), Lebanese University, Beirut, from the Research Department (Hallit), Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal Eddib, from the Faculty of Medicine (Hallit), Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon, from the Division of Pulmonary Medicine (Irani), University of Alberta Hospital, Alberta, Canada, and from the Department of Dermatology and Allergy (Weller, Maurer), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Allergie-Centrum Charité, Charite, Berlin
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Pascale Salameh
From the Hotel-Dieu de France (Irani, El Haber), Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), St Joseph University, from the Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), Faculty of Medicine (Salameh), Lebanese University, Beirut, from the Research Department (Hallit), Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal Eddib, from the Faculty of Medicine (Hallit), Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon, from the Division of Pulmonary Medicine (Irani), University of Alberta Hospital, Alberta, Canada, and from the Department of Dermatology and Allergy (Weller, Maurer), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Allergie-Centrum Charité, Charite, Berlin
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vol. 38 no. 12 1230-1236
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.12.21206
PubMed 
29209673

Published By 
Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 29, 2017
  • Accepted October 30, 2017
  • Published online March 3, 2021.

Copyright & Usage 
Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Carla Irani, MD, FAAAAI,
  2. Souheil Hallit, MSc, MPH⇑,
  3. Karsten Weller, MD, PhD,
  4. Marcus Maurer, MD, PhD,
  5. Carla El Haber, MD and
  6. Pascale Salameh, MPH, PhD
  1. From the Hotel-Dieu de France (Irani, El Haber), Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), St Joseph University, from the Faculty of Pharmacy (Hallit), Faculty of Medicine (Salameh), Lebanese University, Beirut, from the Research Department (Hallit), Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal Eddib, from the Faculty of Medicine (Hallit), Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon, from the Division of Pulmonary Medicine (Irani), University of Alberta Hospital, Alberta, Canada, and from the Department of Dermatology and Allergy (Weller, Maurer), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Allergie-Centrum Charité, Charite, Berlin
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Souheil Hallit, Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Beirut, Lebanon. E-mail: souheilhallit{at}hotmail.com
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