Pediatric allergy: principles and practice

Pediatric Allergy supplies the comprehensive guidance you need to diagnose, manage, and treat virtually any type of allergy seen in children. Drs. Leung, Sampson, Geha, and Szefler present the new full-color second edition, with coverage of the diagnosis and management of anaphylaxis, the immune mechanisms underlying allergic disease, the latest diagnostic tests, and more in print. Treat the allergy at its source rather than the resulting reactions through an understanding of the immune mechanisms underlying allergic diseases. Manage the rapid increase in pediatric allergy with the comprehensive guidance of Drs. Leung & Sampson.--Résumé de l'éditeur.

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Éd. précédente: St. Louis, Mo.; London: Mosby, 2003.

Epidemiology of allergic diseases -- Natural history of allergic diseases and asthma -- the genetics of allergic disease and asthma -- Regulation and biology of immunoglobulin E -- Inflammatory effector cells/cell migration -- The developing immune system and allergy -- Approach to the child with recurrent infections -- Antibody deficiency -- T cell immunodeficiencies -- Pediatric human immunodeficiency virus infection -- Complement deficiencies -- White blood cell defects -- Rheumatic diseases of childhood: therapeutic principles -- Autoimmune diseases -- Congenital immune dysregulation disorders -- Epstein-barr virus infections -- Intravenous immune serum globulin (IVIG) therapy in patients with antibody immune deficiency -- Bone marrow transplantation -- Gene therapy and allergy -- Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and gene therapy for primary immune deficiency diseases -- Autoinflammatory disorders -- Laboratory diagnosis and management of human allergic disease -- In vivo testing for immunoglobulin E-mediated sensitivity -- Outdoor allergens -- Indoor allergens -- Environmental control -- Immunotherapy for allergic disease -- Allergic rhinitis -- Otitis media -- Sinusit…