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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Roy Patterson; Leslie Carroll Grammer; Paul A Greenberger |
| ISBN: | 0781723868 9780781723862 |
| OCLC Number: | 48256921 |
| Notes: | Rev. ed. of: Allergic diseases : diagnosis and management / edited by Roy Patterson ; associate editors, Leslie Carroll Grammer, Paul A. Greenberger ; with 24 additional contributors. 5th ed. c1997. |
| Description: | xviii, 830 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Review of immunology -- Evaluation and management of immune deficiency in allergy practice -- Immunology of IgE-mediated and other hypersensitivity states -- Biochemical mediators of allergic reactions -- Antihistamines -- Allergens and other factors important in atopic disease -- Airborn pollen presence in the United States -- Diagnosis of immediate hypersensitivity -- Allergic rhinitis -- Principles of immunologic management of allergic disease due to extrinsic antigens -- Allergic diseases of the eye and ear -- Allergy to stinging insects -- Urticaria, angioedema, and hereditary angioedema -- Food allergy -- Atopic dermatitis -- Erythema multiforme, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, and toxic epidermal necrolysis -- Drug allergy: Part A: Introduction, epidemiology, classification of adverse reactions, immunochemical basis, risk factors, evaluation of patients with suspected drug allergy, patient management considerations; Part B: Allergic reactions to individual drugs: low molecular weight; Part C: Immunologic reactions to high-molecular-weight therapeutic agents -- Contact dermatitis -- Nasal polyposis, sinusitis, and nonallergic rhinitis -- Anaphylaxis -- Idiopathic anaphylaxis -- Asthma -- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis -- Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis -- Occupational immunologic lung disease -- Controversial and unproved methods in allergy diagnosis and treatment -- Allergic disorders and pregnancy -- Management of acute severe asthma -- Radiologic evaluation of allergic and related diseases of the upper airway -- Radiologic evaluation of allergic and related diseases of the lower airway -- Natural rubber latex allergy -- Physiologic assessment of asthma and other allergic lung diseases -- Evaluation of eosinophilia -- Corticosteroids in treatment of allergic diseases -- B agonists -- Other antiallergic drugs: Cromolyn, Nedocromil, antileukotrienes, anticholinergics, and Theophyline -- Delivery devices for inhaled medications -- Novel immunologic therapies -- Management of the "difficult" patient -- Chronic sinusitis: role of rhinoscopy and surgery -- The wheezing infant -- Sleep disorders in the allergic patient. |
| Other Titles: | Allergic diseases. |
| Responsibility: | editors, Leslie C. Grammer, Paul A. Greenberger. |
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