Patterson's allergic diseases / editors, Leslie C. Grammer, Paul A. Greenberger.
Material type: TextPublication details: Baltimore, MD : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2009.Edition: 7th edDescription: xxi, 713 p. : ill. ; 27 cmISBN:- 9780781794251
- 0781794250
- 616.97 22 PAT- 2009 1450666
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- € 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.