Abstract

Urticarial vasculitis (UV) is a small vessel leucocytoclastic vasculitis, which often needs to be distinguished from urticaria and other dermatoses. Treatment of UV in children is challenging because of the unsatisfying efficacy of antihistamines and the safety concern of long-term systemic corticosteroids or immunosuppressive agents. As a classic biological agent widely used in chronic spontaneous urticaria, omalizumab might also be a potential therapeutic option in the treatment of children with UV. This report presented four children, aged 4-6 years, with glucocorticoid-unresponsive UV successfully treated by omalizumab, thus providing evidence that omalizumab can be used to treat UV with good efficacy and tolerability in the paediatric population.

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