Patterson's allergic diseases

Review of immunology -- Evaluation and management of immune deficiency in allergy practice -- Immunology of IgE-mediated and other hypersensitivity states -- Biochemical mediators of allergic reactions -- Antihistamines -- Allergens and other factors important in atopic disease -- Airborn pollen presence in the United States -- Diagnosis of immediate hypersensitivity -- Allergic rhinitis -- Principles of immunologic management of allergic disease due to extrinsic antigens -- Allergic diseases of the eye and ear -- Allergy to stinging insects -- Urticaria, angioedema, and hereditary angioedema -- Food allergy -- Atopic dermatitis -- Erythema multiforme, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, and toxic epidermal necrolysis -- Drug allergy: Part A: Introduction, epidemiology, classification of adverse reactions, immunochemical basis, risk factors, evaluation of patients with suspected drug allergy, patient management considerations; Part B: Allergic reactions to individual drugs: low molecular weight; Part C: Immunologic reactions to high-molecular-weight therapeutic agents -- Contact dermatitis -- Nasal polyposis, sinusitis, and nonallergic rhinitis -- Anaphylaxis -- Idiopathic anaphylaxis -- Asthma -- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis -- Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis -- Occupational immunologic lung disease -- Controversial and unproved methods in allergy diagnosis and treatment -- Allergic disorders and pregnancy -- Management of acute severe asthma -- Radiologic evaluation of allergic and related diseases of the upper airway -- Radiologic evaluation of allergic and related diseases of the lower airway -- Natural rubber latex allergy -- Physiologic assessment of asthma and other allergic lung diseases -- Evaluation of eosinophilia -- Corticosteroids in treatment of allergic diseases -- B agonists -- Other antiallergic drugs: Cromolyn, Nedocromil, antileukotrienes, anticholinergics, and Theophyline -- Delivery devices for inhaled medications -- Novel immunologic therapies -- Management of the "difficult" patient -- Chronic sinusitis: role of rhinoscopy and surgery -- The wheezing infant -- Sleep disorders in the allergic patient.