Pediatric Immunology

Easy to understand and easy to use, this essential book reflects the rapid progress in one of the most intriguing fields of medicine. It offers state-of-the-art information on basic immunology, fetal-neonatal immunology, and many more fascinating areas.

This book comprises a collection of categorized case-based questions, directed and meticulously selected to cover the most common and most important aspects of immunodeficiency diseases. Immunodeficiency disorders of infancy and childhood such as antibody deficiencies, phagocyte defects and defects in innate immunity are addressed among others. Each chapters starts with a brief of the initial presentation and lab data of the patient, followed by a series of 5-6 multiple choice questions (MCQs), leading the reader to the diagnosis and best of practice in a step-wise manner. This MCQ format along with precise, yet detailed answer ensures a quick, case-based, reality learning to the reader. This comprehensive MCQ series, is an essential reading material that a pediatric clinician, hematologist, immunologist, transplant specialist, or pulmonologist, can not afford to miss.

This Research Topic highlights high-quality Case Reports in Pediatric Immunology. Our Case Reports aim to highlight unique cases of patients that present with an unexpected/unusual diagnosis, treatment outcome, or clinical course. Case Reports provide insight into the differential diagnosis, decision making, and clinical management of unusual cases and are a valuable educational tool.

Pediatric Immunology and Allergy, An Issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, E-Book

Together with Consulting Editor Dr. Bonita Stanton, Dr. Elizabeth Secord has put together a comprehensive issue that discusses the updates in pediatric immunology and allergy. Expert authors have contributed clinical review articles on the following topics: Humoral Immune deficiency in childhood; Neutrophil deficiencies; Newborn screening for severe combined immune deficiency (SCID); New treatments for asthma; New insights and treatments in Atopic Dermatitis; Food allergy avoidance and treatments; Eosinophilic Esophagitis; Inner City Asthma; Allergic rhinitis; Anaphylaxis in children and adolescents; Biologic therapy induced immune deficiency; Drug Allergies and Sensitivities in children; and Secondary immune deficiency. Readers will come away with the information they need to improve outcomes in pediatric patients with immunologic and allergic conditions.

This issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, guest edited by Dr. David Stukus, is devoted to Pediatric Allergy. Articles in this important issue include: It’s Not Mom’s Fault: Prenatal and Early Life Exposures that Do and Do Not Contribute to Food Allergy Development; Implementation of Early Peanut Introduction Guidelines: It Takes a Village; Managing Younger Siblings of Food Allergic Children; Oral Food Challenges in Infants and Toddlers; Moving Past ‘Avoid all Nuts’: Individualizing Management of Children with Peanut/Tree Nut Allergies; Eczema is a Barrier Issue, Not an Allergy Issue; Tips and Tricks for Controlling Eczema; What to Do with an Abnormal Newborn Screen for Severe Combined Immune Deficiency; Vocal Cord Dysfunction: The Spectrum Across the Ages; It’s Time to Start Phenotyping Our Patients with Asthma; Asthma Self-Management: It’s Not One Size Fits All; and How Dr. Google is Impacting Parental Medical Decision Making.

In this innovative, short, new textbook, Rod Langman offers a conceptual framework within which students can understand the evolution of the immune system. Evolutionary selection for resistance to infectious disease is shown to be the driving force that has shaped the immune system into a remarkably effective and efficient system of defense. In the midst of the current information explosion in immunological science, when many students are under the impression that the immune system is almost too complex to understand as a whole, The Immune System can be used alone as a text for an introductory course or used in conjunction with any of the several descriptive texts already on the market.

Pediatric Allergy supplies the comprehensive guidance you need to diagnose, manage, and treat virtually any type of allergy seen in children. Drs. Leung, Sampson, Geha, and Szefler present the new full-color second edition, with coverage of the diagnosis and management of anaphylaxis, the immune mechanisms underlying allergic disease, the latest diagnostic tests, and more. Treat the full range of pediatric allergic and immunologic diseases through clinically focused coverage relevant to both allergists and pediatricians. Understand the care and treatment of pediatric patients thanks to clinical pearls discussing the best approaches. Easily refer to appendices that list common food allergies and autoantibodies in autoimmune diseases. Apply the newest diagnostic tests available—for asthma, upper respiratory allergy, and more—and know their benefits and contraindications. Treat the allergy at its source rather than the resulting reactions through an understanding of the immune mechanisms underlying allergic diseases. Get coverage of new research that affects methods of patient treatment and discusses potential reasons for increased allergies in some individuals. Better manage potential anaphylaxis cases through analysis of contributing facts and progression of allergic disease. Effectively control asthma and monitor its progression using the new step-by-step approach. Eliminate difficulty in prescribing antibiotics thanks to coverage of drug allergies and cross-reactivity.