Paul J Turner, Ignacio J Ansotegui, Dianne E Campbell, Victoria Cardona, Stuart Carr, Adnan Custovic, Stephen Durham, Motohiro Ebisawa, Mario Geller, Alexei Gonzalez-Estrada, Paul A Greenberger, Elham Hossny, Carla Irani, Agnes S Y Leung, Michael E Levin, Antonella Muraro, John J Oppenheimer, José Antonio Ortega Martell, Guillaume Pouessel, Manuel J Rial, Gianenrico Senna, Luciana K Tanno, Dana V Wallace, Margitta Worm, Mário Morais-Almeida
There is a lack of consensus over the description and severity assignment of allergic adverse reactions to immunotherapy, although there seems to be a consensus at least in terms of using the World Allergy Organization (WAO) grading systems to describe local adverse events for Sublingual Immunotherapy (SLIT) and Systemic Allergic Reactions (SARs) to Subcutaneous Immunotherapy (SCIT) amongst the major national/regional allergy societies. In this manuscript, we propose a modification of the previous WAO Grading system for SARs, which aligns with the newly-proposed Consortium for Food Allergy Research (CoFAR) Grading Scale for Systemic Allergic Reactions in Food Allergy (version 3...
March 2024: World Allergy Organization Journal