cover image - Food Allergy, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323847056
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 352
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $115.99

Food Allergy, 2nd Edition

by A. Wesley Burks, MD, Philippe Eigenmann, Wayne Shreffler, MD, PhD and Yamini Virkud

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cover image - Food Allergy, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323847056
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 352
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $115.99
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​​​​​In recent years, novel treatments and new management guidelines regarding food allergies have resulted in vastly improved patient outcomes. Food Allergy, 2nd Edition, brings you fully up to date with the latest research and treatment protocols in this complex field, offering the tools you need to quickly and accurately diagnose, treat, and manage food allergies in children and adults. The consistent, practical format—featuring a wealth of case studies, clinical pearls and pitfalls, full-color photos and illustrations, diagrams, and more—makes this an ideal quick reference tool for both allergy clinicians and primary care physicians.
    • Reflects recent changes in the understanding and treatment of food allergies, from prevalent to less common, including the latest research on mechanisms of allergies and current treatment protocols and guidelines
    • Provides essential background information on basic immunology and physiology that is critical to understanding new practice changes
    • Contains extensive updates on peanut allergies, the LEAP prevention study, new oral and subcutaneous immunotherapies, future therapies, natural history and prevention, genetics, microbiome, biomarkers, precision approaches, eosinophilic gastroenteropathies, and more
    • Discusses the latest understanding of non-IgE-mediated food allergies and a review of unproven diagnostic and therapeutic techniques
    • Uses a templated, focused format that includes full-color photos and illustrations, diagrams, case studies, clinical pearls, and more
    • Shares the knowledge, experience, and global perspective of leading international authors
    • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

  • 1. Overview of Mucosal Immunity and Development of Oral Tolerance
    2. Food Antigens
    3. Epidemiology of Food Allergy
    4. Clinical Overview of Adverse Reactions to Foods
    5. Atopic Dermatitis and Food Allergy
    6. Food-Induced Urticaria and Angioedema
    7. Pollen-Food Syndrome
    8. The Respiratory Tract and Food Allergy
    9. Food-Induced Anaphylaxis and Food Associated Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis
    10. Eosinophilic Gastroenteropathies (Eosinophilic Esophagitis, Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis and Eosinophilic Colitis)
    11. Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis, Food Protein-Induced Enteropathy, Proctocolitis, and Infantile Colic
    12. Approach to Clinical Diagnosis of Food Allergy: Historic Features
    13. In Vivo and In Vitro Diagnostic Methods in the Evaluation of Food Allergy
    14. Oral Food Challenge Procedures
    15. Management of Food Allergy and Development of an Anaphylaxis Treatment Plan
    16. Patient Education and Empowerment
    17. Future Therapies for Food Allergies
    18. Natural History and Prevention of Food Allergy
    19. Diets and Nutrition: Cross-Reacting Food Allergens
    20. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemmas: Adverse Reactions to Food Additives, Pharmacologic Food Reactions, Psychologic Considerations Related to Food Ingestion

  • A. Wesley Burks, MD, Dean, UNC School of Medicine; CEO of UNC Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, Philippe Eigenmann, Wayne Shreffler, MD, PhD and Yamini Virkud
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