Editorial

Hereditary Angioedema Consensus 2010

Tom Bowen

• Correspondence: Tom Bowen tbowen@pol.net

Author Affiliations

Department of Medicine and Paediatrics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2010, 6:13 doi:10.1186/1710-1492-6-13

Published: 28 July 2010

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

The 2010 International Consensus Algorithm for the Diagnosis, Therapy and Management of Hereditary Angioedema was arrived at during the Canadian Hereditary Angioedema Network (CHAEN)/Réseau Canadien d'angioédème héréditaire (RCAH) second meeting held May 15^th/16^th, 2010, Toronto, Canada and was cosponsored by CHAEN/RCAH, the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and the University of Calgary and was funded through an unrestricted educational grant from CSL Behring. This is the third international consensus and is meant to be a living document requiring continual updating and rethinking. The first consensus conference was scheduled for Toronto, Ontario, Canada in April 2003 but was SARSed out. That conference was rescheduled and held in Toronto in October 2003 and published in 2004. The next consensus was again held in Toronto Canada in 2006 and rediscussed in Budapest in 2007 and published in 2008. This third consensus conference was in danger of being ashed out from the volcanic activity in Iceland making planning of such meetings a challenge.