Pediatric allergy: principles and practice

The third edition of Pediatric Allergy continues this title's steadfast tradition of providing comprehensive, authoritative guidance on the day-to-day diagnosis and management of pediatric allergic and immunologic diseases. You'll have the most up-to-date research at hand thanks to an easily accessible full-color format that highlights a host of new chapters, extensive updates, and clinically focused coverage. Whether you're a student, resident, pediatrician or allergist, you'll appreciate this user-friendly and versatile source for providing optimal care!

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 and effector cells/cell migration -- The developing immune system and allergy -- Approach to the child with recurrent infections including molecular diagnostics -- Antibody deficiency -- T cell immunodeficiencies -- Complement deficiencies -- Defects of innate immunity -- Rheumatic diseases of childhood : therapeutic principles -- Congenital immune dysregulation disorders -- Autoinflammatory disorders -- Immunoglobulin therapy -- Hematopoietic stem cell therapy -- Biologic therapies -- Laboratory diagnosis 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 -- Sinusitis -- Chronic cough -- Immunology of the asthmatic response -- Guidelines for treatment of asthma : a global concern -- Functional assessment of asthma -- Infections and asthma : impact on the natural history of asthma -- Special considerations for infant…