Academic literature on the topic 'FdEIT'

Anaphylaxis induced by exercise after the intake of certain foods is referred to as food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis (FDEIA). Only the preventive medication such as oral sodium cromoglycate and oral combined cetirizine-montelukast was tried in FDEIA. Specific oral tolerance induction (SOTI) using IFN-gamma was tried in 2 cases of FDEIA for wheat. Merely, exercise accompanied every treatment just after the intake of allergenic foods during treatment. Patients acquired tolerance for wheat in both cases successfully. After treatment, two patients take wheat in their food living freely. Conclusively, SOTI using IFN-gamma was effective as the causative treatment for allergenic foods in FDEIA.

There are no epidemiological data about food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis (FDEIA) in Latin America. Our aim was to design, assess, and validate a questionnaire to identify potential FDEIA cases and/or estimate its prevalence by self-report. Questions were included in the instrument to address the main symptoms of FDEIA, type/intensity of physical activity, and anaphylaxis. The instrument’s clarity, comprehension and repeatability were evaluated. These evaluations were carried out by Hispanic people (Argentinians/Colombians/Mexicans/Peruvians), including nine individuals with medical diagnosis of FDEIA, and Brazilians. The Flesch–Kincaid score was calculated using the INFLESZ software. The instrument was translated from Spanish to Brazilian Portuguese following the translation back-translation procedure. The participants rated the two versions of the questionnaire as clear and comprehensible (three-point ordinal scale) and very easy to understand [0.33; average (scale 0–10)]. For these evaluations, the Kendall’s W coefficient showed strong agreement among raters (W = 0.80; average). The Flesch–Kincaid score was 63.5 in average (documents considered as readable). The Cohen’s Kappa coefficient showed almost perfect agreement in repeatability (0.88; average). The validation process of two versions of an instrument, used to identify potential FDEIA cases, was successfully carried out and it was found applicable to Latin American countries for generating epidemiological data.

ABSTRACT Food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis (FDEIA) is a specific variant of exercise-induced anaphylaxis that requires both vigorous physical activity and the ingestion of specific foods within the preceding several hours. When patients present to the emergency department (ED) with allergic reactions, careful history regarding these 2 factors is required to establish the correct diagnosis. Correct diagnosis of FDEIA will allow patients to take control of their lifestyles and avert repeated events and ED visits. Two cases of FDEIA are presented, and the diagnosis, pathophysiology and therapy of food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis are reviewed.

The basic idea of frozen-density embedding theory (FDET) is the constrained minimization of the Hohenberg–Kohn density functional E HK[ρ] performed using the auxiliary functional E_{v_{AB}}^{\rm FDET}[\Psi _A, \rho _B], where Ψ A is the embedded N A -electron wavefunction and ρ B (r) is a non-negative function in real space integrating to a given number of electrons N B . This choice of independent variables in the total energy functional E_{v_{AB}}^{\rm FDET}[\Psi _A, \rho _B] makes it possible to treat the corresponding two components of the total density using different methods in multi-level simulations. The application of FDET using ρ B (r) reconstructed from X-ray diffraction data for a molecular crystal is demonstrated for the first time. For eight hydrogen-bonded clusters involving a chromophore (represented as Ψ A ) and the glycylglycine molecule [represented as ρ B (r)], FDET is used to derive excitation energies. It is shown that experimental densities are suitable for use as ρ B (r) in FDET-based simulations.

Food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis (FDEIA), is a severe form of allergy for which the ingestion of a specific food, usually before physical exercise induces symptoms of anaphylaxis. Patients typically have IgE antibodies to the food that triggers the reactions; however, the symptoms appear only if the co-factors act together. The most common reported cause of these reactions seems to be wheat. In some cases FDEIA is displayed even when the food is eaten immediately after exercise, showing that in FDEIA, not the sequence but rather the coincidence of triggering factors use, is of crucial importance. The risk to develop anaphylaxis in these patients depends on the presence and, in some cases, on the amount of cofactors of anaphylaxis. There are lots of evidences about the role of NSAIDs as cofactors of anaphylaxis.

Allergic reactions can be mild or life threatening. Food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis (FDEIA) is a severe form of allergic reaction in which symptoms develop only after exercising within a few hours of eating a specific food. The condition is, at times, underdiagnosed. Proper history taking is essential, especially when patients present with allergic reactions after exertion and food intake. The patient being described developed FDEIA because of exercising after eating nuts.

Abstract In this paper, by using the concept of changing-periodic time scales and composition theorem of time scales introduced in 2015, we establish a local phase space for functional dynamic equations with infinite delay (FDEID) on an arbitrary time scale with a bounded graininess function μ. Through Krasnoseľskiĭ’s fixed point theorem, some sufficient conditions for the existence of local-periodic solutions for FDEID are established for the first time. This research indicates that one can extract a local-periodic solution for dynamic equations on an arbitrary time scale with a bounded graininess function μ through some index function.

Le but de cette thèse était d’étudier la dynamique de croissance par pulvérisation par plasma RF magnétron des couches minces à base d’oxyde de zinc destinées à des applications électroniques, optoélectroniques et photoniques de pointe. Dans ce contexte, nous avons mis au point plusieurs diagnostics permettant de caractériser les espèces neutres et chargées dans ce type de plasmas, notamment la sonde électrostatique, la spectroscopie optique d’émission et d’absorption, ainsi que la spectrométrie de masse. Par la suite, nous avons tenté de corréler certaines caractéristiques physiques de croissance des couches de ZnO, en particulier la vitesse de dépôt, aux propriétés fondamentales du plasma. Nos résultats ont montré que l’éjection d’atomes de Zn, In et O au cours de la pulvérisation RF magnétron de cibles de Zn, ZnO et In2O3 n’influence que très peu la densité d’ions positifs (et donc la densité d’électrons en supposant la quasi-neutralité) ainsi que la fonction de distribution en énergie des électrons (populations de basse et haute énergie). Cependant, le rapport entre la densité d’atomes d’argon métastables (3P2) sur la densité électronique décroît lorsque la densité d’atomes de Zn augmente, un effet pouvant être attribué à l’ionisation des atomes de Zn par effet Penning. De plus, dans les conditions opératoires étudiées (plasmas de basse pression, < 100 mTorr), la thermalisation des atomes pulvérisés par collisions avec les atomes en phase gazeuse demeure incomplète. Nous avons montré que l’une des conséquences de ce résultat est la présence d’ions Zn+ suprathermiques près du substrat. Finalement, nous avons corrélé la quantité d’atomes de Zn pulvérisés déterminée par spectroscopie d’émission avec la vitesse de dépôt d’une couche mince de ZnO mesurée par ellipsométrie spectroscopique. Ces travaux ont permis de mettre en évidence que ce sont majoritairement les atomes de Zn (et non les espèces excitées et/ou ioniques) qui gouvernent la dynamique de croissance par pulvérisation RF magnétron des couches minces de ZnO.
The goal of this thesis was to study the growth dynamics of zinc oxide based thin films by RF magnetron sputtering plasmas for advanced electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic applications. In this context, we have developed several diagnostics to characterize neutral and charged species in such plasmas, in particular electrostatic probe, optical emission and absorption spectroscopy, as well as plasma sampling mass spectrometry. Afterward, we have tried to correlate specific physical characteristics of as-grown ZnO thin films, in particular the deposition rate, to fundamental plasma properties. Our results have shown that the ejection of Zn, In and O atoms during the RF magnetron sputtering of Zn, ZnO and In2O3 targets does not significantly influence the number density of positive ions (and thus the electron density assuming quasi-neutrality) as well as the electron energy distribution function (populations of low and high energy). However, the ratio of the number density of metastable argon atoms (3P2) to the electron density decreases with increasing concentration Zn atoms; a feature that can be ascribed to Penning ionization of RF sputtered Zn atoms. Furthermore, over the range operating conditions examined in this study (low-pressure plasmas), the thermalization of sputtered atoms by collisions with atoms in the gas phase remains incomplete. We have shown that one of the consequences of this result is the presence of suprathermic Zn+ ions near the target. Finally, we have correlated the quantity of sputtered Zn atoms determined by optical emission spectroscopy with the deposition rate of ZnO thin films measured by spectroscopic ellipsometry. This set of data lead us to the conclusion that mainly Zn atoms (and not excited and/or ionic Zn species) govern the growth dynamic of ZnO-based thin films during magnetron sputtering in argon RF plasmas.