Allergy Essentials - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 2nd Edition

by Robyn E. O'Hehir, FRACP, PhD, FRCPath, Stephen T Holgate, MD, DSc, FMedSci, Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, MD, PhD and Aziz Sheikh, MD

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource - Access Card

ISBN: 9780323931243

Publication Date: 01-28-2022

Page Count: 352

Imprint: Elsevier

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Key Features
- Offers a practical approach to evaluation, differential diagnosis, and treatment of allergic disorders, focused specifically on what the non-specialist needs to know for everyday practice.
- Includes new content on allergen-specific immunotherapy as well as a new chapter on precision medicine.
- Covers the most recent allergy tests, including blood tests, and includes current discussions of biologicals as therapeutics.
- Provides focused, relevant information on basic immunology and physiology, epidemiology, and allergens.
- Begins each chapter with a handy summary of key concepts to help you quickly identify important information.
- Authored by the same internationally recognized experts that produce Middleton’s Allergy, the definitive text in the field.
- An ideal resource for primary care providers who are increasingly seeing and treating patients with allergic conditions as well as allergists who need a concise and current practice reference.
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Contents

1 Introduction to mechanisms of allergic diseases
2 Precision Medicine
3 Epidemiology of Allergic Diseases
4 Indoor and Outdoor Allergens and Pollutants
5 Principles of allergy diagnosis
6 Allergen-specific immunotherapy
7 Asthma
8 Allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis
9 Drug allergy
10 Urticaria
11 Atopic dermatitis and allergic contact dermatitis
12 Food allergy and gastrointestinal syndromes
13 Anaphylaxis
14 Occupational allergy
15 Insect allergy
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Authors

Robyn E. O'Hehir, FRACP, PhD, FRCPath, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Department of Allergy, Immunology, and Respiratory Medicine, Australia, Stephen T Holgate, MD, DSc, FMedSci, Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology Medical Faculty in Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, MD, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, USA and Aziz Sheikh, MD, Professor of Primary Care Research and Development Co-Director of the Centre of Medical Informatics