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

Allergic and Immunologic Diseases: A Practical Guide to the Evaluation, Diagnosis and Management of Allergic and Immunologic Diseases is a valuable resource for researchers and others involved in the day-to-day practice of allergy and immunology, with specific information, protocols and algorithms to guide their thinking. The book provides practical information and an explanation of why and how we do things, while also addressing the limitations of testing and treatment. Other sections focus on scientific based practices and the known pathophysiology of allergic and immunologic diseases, along with mechanisms of action in various treatment modalities. This book is unique in that it explains the rationale behind everything we do in allergy and immunology, hence it offers readers specific information on procedures and how to order tests and treat allergic and immunologic diseases.

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

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