Pediatric Allergy: Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition

Pediatric Allergy Principles and Practice 3e

Product Details

• Includes diagnostic tests available for asthma, upper respiratory allergy, and more.
• Equips you with an understanding of the immune mechanisms underlying allergic diseases.
• Features coverage of drug allergies and cross-reactivity.
• Highlights clinical pearls discussing the best approaches to the care and treatment of pediatric patients.
• Appendices listing common food allergies and autoantibodies in autoimmune diseases make for quick reference to essential material.

• Revised asthma section examines current asthma guidelines; school-centered asthma programs; exercise-induced asthma; and new directions in asthma therapy.
• Includes the most current knowledge relating to emerging asthma within young children, medication adherence, and the impact of infection on the natural history of asthma.
• New information on gene therapy, stem-cell therapy, and a host of new immunodeficiency diseases helps you obtain the best results from the therapeutics for pediatric allergic and immunologic diseases.
• Features brand-new chapters on immunopathology; diagnostics and management; potential immunotherapeutic strategies for treating food allergies; current status of immunotherapy for food allergy; and biologic therapies.
• Focused coverage of today’s hot topics in pediatric allergy includes the use of targeted biologics to treat specific activation pathways leading to severe allergic diseases; defects of innate immunity; rheumatic diseases of childhood; and inflammatory disorders.
• Discusses new studies examining potential etiologies for the increase in food allergy and examinespotential immunotherapeutic strategies for treating food allergies.
• New evidence-based principles of medical care help you make the best use of available medications for your patients.

• Hardcover: 568 pages
• Publisher: Elsevier; 3 edition (August 22, 2015)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0323298753
• ISBN-13: 978-0323298759