Professor, Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Allergy & Immunology

Amal Assa'Ad works in the field of Allergy & Immunology. She received awards:"Fellow (FAAAAI)". Doctor Amal H. Assa'Ad, MD is also published. She has 50 publications published. The lastest publication: "Effect of superoxide dismutase on a rabbit model of chronic allergic asthma.'

Publications

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• Caustic ingestions mimicking Anaphylaxis: case studies and literature review.
• Clinical Features of Pediatric Hereditary Angioedema.
• Combined Immune Deficiency in a Patient with a Novel NFKB2 Mutation.
• Food-specific serum immunoglobulin E measurements in children presenting with food allergy.
• Eosinophilic Asthma: Insights into the effects of reducing IL-5 receptor-positive cell levels.
• Food allergy: diagnosis and beyond.
• An Antibody Against IL-5 Reduces Numbers of Esophageal Intraepithelial Eosinophils in Children with Eosinophilic Esophagitis.
• Identification, epidemiology, and chronicity of pediatric esophageal eosinophilia, 1982-1999.
• Variants of thymic stromal lymphopoietin and its receptor associate with eosinophilic esophagitis.
• Anti-IL-5 (mepolizumab) therapy reduces eosinophil activation ex vivo and increases IL-5 and IL-5 receptor levels.
• Clinical, pathologic, and molecular characterization of familial eosinophilic esophagitis compared with sporadic cases.
• Intrinsically defective skin barrier function in children with atopic Dermatitis correlates with disease severity.
• Interplay of adaptive th2 immunity with eotaxin-3/c-C chemokine receptor 3 in eosinophilic esophagitis.
• Pediatric patients with eosinophilic esophagitis: an 8-year follow-up.
• Anti-IL-5 (mepolizumab) therapy for eosinophilic esophagitis.
• A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of fluticasone propionate for pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis.
• Gastrointestinal food allergy and intolerance.
• Eotaxin-3 and a uniquely conserved gene-expression profile in eosinophilic esophagitis.
• Anti-IL-5 and hypereosinophilic syndromes.
• Clinical and immunopathologic effects of swallowed fluticasone for eosinophilic esophagitis.
• Anti-interleukin-5 (mepolizumab) therapy for hypereosinophilic syndromes.
• A negative, double-blind, placebo-controlled challenge to genetically modified corn.
• Drug reaction to ceftriaxone in a child with X-linked agammaglobulinemia.
• Unilateral choanal atresia in a child with recurrent infections.
• Work Group report: oral food challenge testing.
• Allergic reaction to mecasermin.
• Severe Allergic reactions to thiol-based cytoprotective agents mesna and amifostine in a child with a supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor.
• Long-term outcomes in pediatric-onset esophageal eosinophilia.
• Cow's milk allergy as a global challenge.
• Diagnosed in the allergy and immunology clinic.
• Allergy, Asthma, and immunology.
• Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of food allergy in the United States: summary of the NIAID-Sponsored Expert Panel report.
• Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of food allergy in the United States: report of the NIAID-sponsored expert panel.
• Diagnosis and Rationale for Action Against Cow's Milk Allergy (DRACMA): a summary report.
• Eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders.
• Successful administration of cytarabine in a 16-month-old girl with acute myelogenous leukemia and cytarabine syndrome.
• Gastrointestinal eosinophil-mediated disorders and their treatment.
• Mouse sensitization as an independent risk factor for Asthma morbidity.
• Immunodeficiency: a problem with the faucet or the drain?
• NIAID-Sponsored 2010 Guidelines for Managing Food Allergy: Applications in the Pediatric Population.
• The -159 C-->T polymorphism of CD14 is associated with nonatopic Asthma and food allergy.
• Food allergy and the introduction of solid foods to infants: a consensus document. Adverse Reactions to Foods Committee, American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immuno...
• Eosinophilic esophagitis: association with Allergic disorders.
• Detection of causative foods by skin prick and atopy patch tests in patients with eosinophilic esophagitis: things are not what they seem.
• Effect of superoxide dismutase on a rabbit model of chronic Allergic asthma.
• Mutation analysis of the gene encoding Bruton's tyrosine kinase in a family with a sporadic case of X-linked agammaglobulinemia reveals three female carriers.
• Hypereosinophilic syndromes.
• Effect of acellular pertussis vaccine on the development of Allergic sensitization to environmental allergens in adults.
• Anaphylactic reaction to ciprofloxacin in a toddler: successful desensitization.

Schools

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• Ain Shams University Faculty Of Medicine

• Ain Shams University Hosps

• Heliopolis Hospital

• Hurley Mc

• Wright State University

• Chldns Hospital Mc

Conditions Treated

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• Allergic Rhinitis
• Anaphylaxis
• Asthma
• Dermatitis
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Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Allergy
• Immunology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FAAAAI)

Education

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• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine

Hospital

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• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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