edited by
Malcolm W. Greaves
and Allen P. Kaplan
Urticaria and Angioedema analyzes possible disease pathways and triggers and provides solidly based clinical practices and identifying key research developments.
Urticaria and Angioedema also:
- offers a classification of the main types of urticaria and angioedema
- presents new studies on the autoimmune mechanisms of chronic idiopathic urticaria
- contains discussions on new generation antihistamines and other treatment modalities
- examines models of heredity and the genetic bases of these diseases
Urticaria and Angioedema examines every type of urticaria and angioedema, reviews the mechanisms common to all types of these disorders, and discusses the uses and limitations of existing and emerging treatment regimens for urticaria and angioedema, including alternative therapeutic approaches.
Contents:
- What is urticaria? Anatomical, physiological, and histological considerations and classification
- Mast cells and basophils
- Mechanisms of Bradykinin formation
- The complement system : mechanisms of activation, regulation, and role in innate and adaptive immunity
- The IgE-mediated cutaneous late-phase reaction
- Acute urticaria
- Contact urticaria
- Physical and cholinergic urticarias
- Urticaria and angioedema in infancy and early childhood
- Papular urticaria
- Diagnosis of difficult urticaria and angioedema
- Hereditary disorders with urticaria or angioedema
- C1 inhibitor deficiency
- Chronic urticaria : autoimmune chronic urticaria and idiopathic chronic urticaria
- Chronic urticaria : general principles and management
- Urticaria : principles of antihistamine treatment
- Treatment of chronic urticaria : agents other than antihistaminics
- Urticarial vasculitis/venulitis
- Angioedema : some "new" thoughts regarding idiopathic angioedema
- Systemic disorders with urticaria and/or angioedema
- Idiopathic anaphylaxis, systemic mastocytosis, and the hypereosinophilic syndrome
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