Clinical Allergy Diagnosis and Management /

• Main Author: Volcheck, Gerald W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2009.
• Series: Current Clinical Practice
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Allergy.; Dermatology.; Internal medicine.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Primary care (Medicine).; Medicine & Public Health.; Primary Care Medicine.; Internal Medicine.; Allergology.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.

Allergic diseases affect nearly one-fourth of the population and cause or contribute to significant chronic illness. Allergic diseases are common and are seen by a wide variety of health care providers. In Clinical Allergy: Diagnosis and Management, the author provides a practical clinical overview...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of the Human Immune Response
• Environmental Allergens
• Allergen Testing and Allergen Immunotherapy
• Allergic Rhinitis and Rhinosinusitis
• Allergic Eye Disease
• Asthma
• Urticaria and Angioedema
• Atopic and Contact Dermatitis
• Drug Allergy
• Food Allergy
• Anaphylaxis and Anaphylactoid Reactions
• Stinging Insect Allergy.