Meet the editor

Dr. Eleni Papakonstantinou, MD, is a board-certified dermatologist-venereologist. She studied medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and continued with her dermatology specialty at the University of Magdeburg and Hannover Medical School, Germany (2012–2017), where she completed her dissertation in 2016 with research work on atopic dermatitis in children. During this time, Dr. Papakonstantinou

gained wide experience in the dermatological field with a special focus on the diagnosis and treatment of chronic inflammatory skin diseases and the prevention and treatment of melanocytic and non-melanocytic skin tumors. Her research interests include atopic dermatitis, pruritus, and the pathophysiology of blistering dermatoses. In addition to lectures at national and international congresses, Dr. Papakonstantinou has published more than thirty scientific papers in international medical journals and her work has been recognized with various prizes (poster prize of the German Dermatological Society, Leipzig, 2016), the Michael Hornstein Memorial Scholarship (EADV Athens 2016), and a travel grant (EAACI Vienna, 2016). Since 2017, she has been a specialist dermatologist-venereologist in Germany and a fellow of the European Board of Dermatology-Venereology (FEBDV). She is currently working as a specialist dermatologist in a dermatological practice in Dortmund, Germany, and she co-administrates an international dermatologic network, Wikiderm International, which is an online learning platform presenting news from the world of dermatology.

Contents

Challenge

*by Eleni Papakonstantinou*

*by Evmorfia Ladoyanni*

*and Joaquin Quiralte-Castillo*

Aspects of Anti-IgE Treatment

The Role of Anti-IgE Antibodies in Urticaria *by Patrizia Pepe and Victor Desmond Mandel*

New Biological Treatment Options in CSU

*by Zahava Vadasz and Elias Toubi*

*by Young-Min Ye*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 25**

**Chapter 4 39**

**Chapter 5 55**

**Chapter 6 95**

The Use of Omalizumab in Chronic Urticaria: Available Data and Future

Introductory Chapter: Urticaria - Meeting the Diagnostic and Therapeutic

Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria – Diagnosis and Management

Clinical Phenotypes in NSAID-Induced Urticaria/Angioedema *by Joaquin Quiralte, María del Robledo Ávila, Stefan Cimbollek* 
