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