Book Info

Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, MD. Details all of the most current evidence-based treatments, as well as alternative approaches. Explains how to modify treatments and how to anticipate, prevent, and manage complications. Offers a new chapter on Crohn's Disease, new molecular therapies, and new drugs. Previous edition: c1996.

Book Description

Still the only text of its kind, the 6th Edition of this popular title presents state-of-the-art guidance on therapy for allergic, immunologic, and rheumatologic diseases. World-class contributors focus on the details of treating these diseases in all of their various manifestations, and also discuss emerging therapies and alternative treatments. Diagnostic considerations are addressed only as they pertain to therapy.

Features

Features short, user-friendly chapters--many of which include a section on the authors' preferred approach--that enable the reader to access material quickly.
Discusses both pediatric and adult cases in one convenient source.
Explains how treatment can be modified at different stages of disease as well as how complications can be anticipated, prevented, and treated.
Covers pathogenic and diagnostic considerations as they relate to therapy.

1. Allergic Rhinitis and Conjunctivitis
2. Chronic Rhinitis Caused by Dust Mite and Other Indoor Allergens
3. Perennial Nonallergic Rhinitis
4. Rhinosinusitis
5. Asthma
6. Childhood Asthma
7. Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory Disease (AERD)
8. Exercise Induced Broncho-constriction, Anaphylaxis and Urticaria
9. Status Asthmaticus
10. Chronic Urticaria
11. Physical Urticaria-Angioedema
12. Hereditary Angioedema
13. Treatment of Dermatitis Herpetiformis
14. Atopic Dermatitis
15. Contact Dermatitis
16. Pemphigus
17. Pemphigold: Bullous and Cictricial
18. Erythema Multiforme
19. Immune-Mediated Nephrotic Renal Disease
20. Immunologically Mediated Nephritic Renal Disease
21. Acute Hypersensitivity Interstitial Nephritis
22. Therapeutic Approach to Renal Transplantation
23. Lupus Nephritis
24. Genetic Aspects of Glomerulo-nephritis and Nephrosis
25. Chemical Sensitivity
26. Diagnosing Food Allergies in Children
27. Food Allergy in Adults
28. Penicillin Allergy
29. Drug Reactions
30. Insect Sting Allergy in Adults
31. Insect Sting Allergy in Children
32. Systemic Anaphylaxis
33. Idiopathic Anaphylaxis
34. Insulin Allergy, Autoimmunity, and Immune-Mediated Insulin Resistance
35. Rheumatoid Arthritis
36. Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
37. Reactive Arthritis
38. Sjogren's Syndrome
39. Ankylosing Spondylitis
40. The Management of Giant Cell Arteritis and Polymyalgia Rheumatica
41. Lyme Disease
42. Kawasaki Syndrome
43. Systemic Lupus Erythematous
44. Scleroderma
45. Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis
46. Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease)
47. Amyloidosis
48. Systemic Necrotizing Vasculitis
49. Cutaneous Vasculitis
50. Takayasu's Arteritis
51. Behcet's Disease
52. Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
53. Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis
54. Sarcoidosis
55. Acute Rheumatic Fever
56. Postcardiac Injury Syndrome
57. Crohn's Disease
58. Ulcerative Colitis
59. Toxic Shock Syndrome
60. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
61. Immunologic Thrombocytepenia
62. Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
63. Autoimmune Neotropenia
64. Aplastic Anemia
65. Phagocyte Function Disorders
66. Antibody Deficiency Syndrome
67. Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
68. Congenital T Lymphocyte Disorders
69. Hyperimmunoglobulin E Syndrome (Job's Syndrome)
70. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
71. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Potential Therapies for Immunologic Reconstitution
72. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Demyelinating Diseases
73. Myasthenia Gravis
74. Immunologic Disease of the External Eye
75. Thyroiditis
76. Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS)
77. T Cell Costimulatory Blockade: A Novel Therapeutic Approach in Autoimmune Diseases, Allergy/Asthma, and Transplantation
78. Anti-IgE
79. Gene Vaccination and Immunostimulatory DNA Based Therapies for the Treatment of Allergic Disease
80. Cytokine Antagonists
81. Practical Considerations of Immune Reconstruction following Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation