Textbook of Pediatric Allergy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Caffarelli, Carlo; Marseglia, Gian Luigi

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art coverage of allergic diseases and related cell-based conditions in the pediatric patient. All most common disorders as allergies to drugs, food (including non IgE-mediated food allergy), asthma, allergens, pollutants, and much more are presented, as well as parts on wheezing, daily routine and quality of life in affected children.

This very informative volume book contains all the latest options to manage patients effectively using detailed treatment protocols. Topics are presented in a systematic, clear and didactic style for easy learning: the memorizing of contents can be tested by the reader through the self-assessment cards included in the volume. Written by experts with decades of teaching experience in the field, Textbook of Pediatric Allergy constitutes a much needed, innovative resource combining updated, reliable and comprehensive information with agile consultation and self-evaluation. The contents will appeal to medical students, nurses and allergy practitioners seeking to understand mechanisms behind the clinical signs, as well as the latest information on treating children with allergy and asthma.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783031712838
• Artikelnr.: 73427872

Autorenporträt

Carlo Caffarelli runs the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Center of the Pediatric Department at Pediatric Hospital in Parma, Italy, He is Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the University of Parma, Italy, with qualification as Full Professor. He specialized in Pediatrics as well as in  Allergy and Clinical Immunology, being awarded 4 scholarship sand spending further training in clinical and research fields at The Hospitals for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, Great Britain, and St. Thomas's Hospital, London, Great Britain. He had been Director of the Post Graduate Course in Pediatrics at the University of Parma and member of the Board of Italian Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. He is Senior Editor of the Italian Journal of Pediatrics. His research interests are mainly directed to the field of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. He has continuously dedicated himself to food allergy, the prevention of atopy, allergic respiratory diseases (such as asthma and allergic rhinitis), skin diseases (such as atopic eczema and urticaria) and anaphylaxis. He has also cultivated with particular care the studies on pediatric diseases in general, on immunodeficiencies, on childhood secretory otitis media. Prof. Caffarelli has published over 295 scientific articles, 290 abstracts of communications or reports, 45 chapters of books or volumes. Gian Luigi Marseglia is Full Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pavia, Director of the Pediatric Clinic of the the Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo and Director of the School of Specialization in Paediatrics at the University of Pavia. After graduating with honors from Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Pavia in 1980, he specialized in Pediatrics at the University of Pavia and subsequently in Allergology and Clinical Immunology, in Physiopathology and Respiratory Physiokinesitherapy and in Infectious Diseases. From 1983 to 1985 he was Assistant Visiting Professor at the Claude Bernard University of Lyon under the guidance of Professor Jean Louis Touraine. Nowadays, Prof. Marseglia is President of the Board of Directors of the Specialization Schools in Paediatrics, He is also a member of the Board of Professors of the PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences of the University of Pavia and is the coordinator of the Master in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology of the same University. He served as the President of the Italian Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology for the four-year period 2019-2023. His scientific activity is documented by more than 650 papers in international journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- Epidemiology of Allergic Diseases.- Basic Mechanisms of Allergy Diagnostics.- Principle of Allergy Diagnostics.- Asthma in the Pediatric Patient.- Severe Asthma in the Pediatric Patient.- Atopic Dermatitis in Pediatric Children.- Allergic Conjunctivitis in Children.- Allergic Rhinitis in the Pediatric Child.- Hymenoptera Venom Allergy in Children.- Anaphylaxis in Pediatric Patients.- Wheezing in Pediatric Patients.- Drug Allergy in Children.- IgE Mediated Food Allergy.- Non IgE Mediated Food Allergy.- Eosinophilic Esophagitis in Children.- Urticaria in the Allergic Child Minasi.- Allergic Angioedema in Pediatric Patients.- Allergy-related Eosinophilia in Children.- Mastocytosis in the Pediatric Patient.- Contact Dermatitis in Children.- Molecular Diagnosis in Pediatric Allergy.- Laboratory Tests in Pediatric Allergy.- Corticosteroids for Inflammation Control in the Allergic Child.- Biologics Monoclonal Antibodies in Pediatric Allergy Treatment.- Allergen-Specific Immunotherapy.- Vaccinations for Infective Diseases and Allergy.- Pollution, Climate Change and Environmental Allergy.- Daily Life of Allergic Children.- Allergy Prevention.- Subject Index.