Patterson's allergic diseases
Revised and updated for its Seventh Edition, is a complete, current, and practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of allergic disorders. This comprehensive yet concise reference will remain the first choice for residents and practitioners who need guidance to identify an allergy, confirm a diagnosis, or find effective therapies. It will also be an excellent aid for board review. This edition includes discussions of clinical trials in asthma and significant updates on drug allergy, imaging, occupational allergy, and immune deficiency evaluation
eBook, English, ©2009
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD, ©2009
1 online resource (xxi, 713 pages) : illustrations
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Review of immunology
Immunology of IgE-mediated and other hypersensitivity responses
Biochemical mediators of allergic reactions
Evaluation and management of immune deficiency in allergy practice
Evaluation of eosinophilia
Allergens and other factors important in atopic disease
Airborne pollen prevalence in the United States
Diagnosis of immediate hypersensitivity
Physiologic and biologic evaluation of allergic lung diseases
Radiologic evaluation of allergic and related diseases of the upper airway
Radiologic evaluation of allergic and related diseases of the lower airway
Chronic rhinosinusitis role of rhinoscopy and surgery
Principles of immunologic management of allergic diseases due to extrinsic antigens
Anaphylaxis
Allergy to stinging insects
Erythema multiforme, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, and toxic epidermal necrolysis
Drug allergy
Food allergies
Asthma
The infant and toddler with asthma
Management of acute severe asthma
Asthma clinical trials
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
Occupational immunlogic lung disease
Allergic rhinitis
Nasal polyposis, sinusitis, and nonallergic rhinitis
Allergic diseases of the eye and ear
Atopic dermatitis
Contact dermatitis
Urticaria, angioedema, and hereditary angioedema
Approach to the patient with pruritus
Antihistamines
β β agonists
Corticosteroids in treatment of allergic diseases
Other antiallergic drugs: cromolyn, nedocromil, antileukotrienes, anticholinergics, and theophylline
Delivery devices for inhaled medications
Novel immunologic therapies
Allergic disorders and pregnancy
Eosinophilic esophagitis
Chronic cough
Sleep disorders in the allergic patient
Management of the psychologically complicated patient
Controversial and unproved methods in allergy diagnosis and treatment
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