Allergic and Immunologic Diseases: A Practical Guide to the Evaluation, Diagnosis and Management of Allergic and Immunologic Diseases

Features:

• Contains useful information on allergic and immunologic diseases, from why we do things the way we do, to methodologies, interpretation of the results and management of diseases
• Provides information that can be immediately downloadable for any specific procedure or treatment algorithm for immediate use
• Evaluates scientific merit and evidence or lack thereof

Table Of Contents:

Section A: Background
1. A history of allergy and immunology
2. The development of clinical laboratory methods in the diagnosis of human disease
3. Discoveries with significant impact in how we diagnosis and treat diseases
4. Taking an allergy and immunology history and physical
5. Basic genetics and epigenetics for the immunologist and allergist
6. Immunological studies – utility and limitations
7. Future developments and how they will impact the practice of medicine

Section B: Diagnosis of allergic diseases
8. Epicutaneous and intradermal skin testing
9. The interpretation of epicutaneous and intradermal skin testing for foods
10. The use of in vitro methods to evaluate allergy
11. Food challenges
12. Testing for the physical urticarias
13. Techniques to evaluate asthma
14. Drug allergy testing
15. Sinus diseases and rhinolaryngoscopy
16. Approach to the rash from an allergy/immunology perspective
17. Patch testing and the evaluation of contact allergy
18. Skin biopsies and their utility
19. The evaluation of mast cell related disorders
20. The evaluation of a patient with urticaria and angioedema
21. Evaluating the patient with eosinophilia or eosinophilic disease
22. Unproven and controversial testing methods in allergy and immunology

Section C: Evaluation of immune function
23. Testing for primary immunodeficiency
24. Testing the innate immune system
25. Testing the adaptive immune system
26. Periodic fever syndromes and autoinflammatory diseases
27. Immunological dysfunction disorders
28. The AIDS workup
29. Basic workup for autoimmune diseases
30. Neuroimmunology
31. Genetic testing

Section D: Treatment of allergic and immunologic diseases
32. Immunotherapy to environmental allergens
33. Drug allergy desensitization methods
34. Oral, sublingual and dermatologic immunotherapy to food allergens
35. Conventional medications for the treatment of allergic diseases
36. The new biologicals in allergy
37. Action plans and quality of life evaluations
38. The treatment of atopic dermatitis
39. The recognition and treatment of anaphylaxis
40. Treatment of venom and other insect allergies
41. Drugs and treatment modalities for itch and hives
42. Integrative medicine in allergy and immunology

Section E: Treatment of immunological disorders
43. Treatment of the patient with PIDD
44. Management of autoinflammatory syndromes and periodic fevers
45. Immunomodulatory pharmaceuticals for the treatment of immune dysfunction
46. Bone marrow transplant for the patient with monogenic PIDD
47. The immunological management of the solid-organ transplant patient
48. Apheresis
49. Pharmaceuticals for AIDS
50. Gene therapy