¸ñÀû: Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a global health problem affects
patients from all ethnic group, socioeconomic condition and ages,
although there is substantial evidence of the effectiveness of
systemic immunotherapy (SIT), still controversy remained on the
effect after SIT. A number of studies have evaluated about the
efficacy of SIT in patients with allergic AR. But long term SIT
and long term follow up studies are still insufficient. Our study
is about the long term SIT & their efficacy through the follow up
study. ¹æ¹ý:In 2004-2014, Total 76 patients who had recieved immunotherapy at
Kyunghee medical allergy clinic due to AR were enrolled. We
performed continuous administration of antigen with 3Mo. interval
and analyzed results of 76 patients who received SIT for 5-10 yrs.
In objective evaluation, we compared the result of MAST, eosinophil
count. and in subjective evaluation, we measured the RQLQ scores
change after immunotherapy. °á°ú:In MAST the average score of D. farinae was decreased from 3.92 0.28 to 3.50 1.17 there was significant change.(p=0.008). Also the average eosinophil count decreased significantly (p = 0.010) from 5.24 2.99 to 4.13 2.14. We also carried out the RQLQ to assess the patient's subjective symptoms. Compared to questionnaire before treatment, there was significantly improvement in overall categories. Especially, The improvements of average scores gap in nasal symptoms, 1.62 1.47 (p=0.000) and eye symptoms, 1.58 3.38 were high. °á·Ð:We recognized that a long-term treatment of allergic immunotherapy
was effective. So, Continuous SIT can be one of recommendable
modality in treatment of AR with long term vision. |