All Things Urticaria

By Global Allergy and Asthma Excellence Network - UCARE in collaboration with MedthorityScience

All Things Urticaria episodes

February 19, 2025 Episode 104 – Insights from the Global Urticaria Forum (GUF)
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23 min
February 11, 2025 Episode 103 - Solar urticaria
What steps can be taken to manage solar urticaria? Professor Torsten Zuberbier and Dr Lea Kiefer examine solar urticaria, discussing the role of skin type, management strategies, and treatment methods.
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16 min
February 03, 2025 Episode 102 - Understanding urticaria: What you need to know
Professor Torsten Zuberbier welcomes Dr Luis Ensina to discuss essential information for people with urticaria, highlighting the benefits of keeping a diary before medical appointments and how using patient-reported outcome tools can help doctors understand their condition better.
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21 min
January 07, 2025 Episode 101 - Live from Global Urticaria Forum
Episode 101 – What were the highlights at Global Urticaria Forum (GUF) 2024? Professor Torsten Zuberbier and Dr Sophia Neisinger share their live reflections on the 7th Global Allergy and Asthma Excellence Network GUF event, including personal highlights, tips for junior physicians to make meaningful contributions to meetings and details on GUF 2025.
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11 min
December 02, 2024 Episode 100 - Urticaria Day 2024
Episode 100 – In this special episode, recorded on Urticaria Day (UDAY), Professor Torsten Zuberbier and Dr Carolina Vera welcome CSU patient advocate Kristen Willard, who shares her story of living with urticaria. With live audience participation, this episode also delves into the cause of itch, the impact of urticaria on mental health, and novel treatments.
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31 min
November 12, 2024 Episode 99 - How should I treat patients who experience a slow or partial response?
Professors Torsten Zuberbier and Dave Khan share their experiences and approaches to treating people with refractory CSU, noting the importance of ensuring a correct diagnosis and following guideline recommendations.
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23 min
November 05, 2024 Episode 98 - Living with CSU: The patient outlook
“It stops my daily life as I know it.” Patient advocate with CSU Kristen Willard joins Professor Torsten Zuberbier to reflect on navigating life with CSU, including the impact on quality of life, potential triggers and the uncertainty around the disease.
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21 min
October 11, 2024 Episode 97 - Clinical trials in urticaria: Part 2
This episode was recorded before 31 July 2024. Professor Marcus Maurer, Dr Carolina Vera Ayala, and Associate Professor Jonny Peter discuss how new therapeutics progress through the development pipeline, noting the “huge amount of data” required on safety before a molecule enters clinical trials. They also shed light on drug repurposing and why children are a “critical group” for inclusion in trials.
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Additional resources for this episode: Chronic urticaria: unmet needs, emerging drugs, and new perspectives on personalised treatment
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30 min
September 20, 2024 Episode 96 - All things acute urticaria: Part 2
[This episode was recorded before 31 July 2024.] "Every chronic urticaria starts as acute urticaria, but not every acute urticaria becomes chronic." Associate Professor Dr Andaç Salman and Professor Marcus Maurer discuss causes of acute urticaria, how diagnosis and management can be improved, and UCARE’s research into drivers of “chronification”.
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Additional resources for this episode: Acute and chronic urticaria diagnosis and management taking into account their differences; Acute urticaria – GA2LEN UCARE 2023 conference presentation and Project: CHAPEAU – GA2LEN UCARE Network
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30 min
September 12, 2024 Episode 95 - The similarities and differences between urticaria and mastocytosis
This episode was recorded before July 31, 2024. Professor Marcus Maurer and Dr Sigurd Broesby-Olsen discuss similarities and differences between urticaria and mastocytosis, two mast cell diseases. They then turn their attention to treatment, sharing their thoughts on ‘killing’ mast cells and the development of more targeted and less toxic therapies.
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Additional resources for this episode: Mast cell silencing: A novel therapeutic approach for urticaria and other mast cell-mediated diseases; Mast cell–targeting therapies in mast cell activation syndromes; and Tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of indolent systemic mastocytosis: Are we there yet?
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21 min

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Catch up on ’All Things Urticaria’ in this podcast series developed by Global Allergy and Asthma Excellence Network UCARE in collaboration with Medthority. Professor Marcus Maurer, Professor of Dermatology and Allergy at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is joined by colleagues for in-depth discussions on the latest research and opinion on the pathogenesis and treatment of urticaria. Medthority received educational funding from the sponsor to help provide its healthcare professional members with access to the highest quality medical and scientific information, education and associated content. The opinions in this podcast are of the invited faculty, for informational purposes only, and should not be taken as medical advice. Please consult your regional guidelines for clinical practice recommendations in your area. For updates on ’All Things Urticaria’, sign up on Medthority. For more on UCARE/ACARE activities, visit the UCARE and ACARE websites, UCARE 4U, UDAY, CRUSE Control App, and CURE Registry.