Full Description
This handbook is a concise guide to the management of skin allergies for practising dermatologists, GPs, and postgraduate medical students.
Divided into four sections, the text covers urticaria, atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, and drug allergy.
Each section is further divided to cover clinical features, classifications, diagnosis and treatment options for different types of allergy.
Clinical photographs, diagrams, tables, flowcharts and algorithms further enhance learning.
Contents
SECTION 1: URTICARIA
1.1 Introduction and Classification of Urticaria
1.2 Acute Urticaria
1.3 Chronic Urticaria and its Types
1.4 Angioedema
1.5 Differential Diagnosis of Urticaria
1.6 Diagnostic Approach to Urticaria
1.7 Management of Urticaria
1.8 Biologicals in Urticaria Management
1.9 Approach to Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria
1.10 Approach to Chronic Inducible Urticaria
1.11 Urticaria in Children
1.12 Urticaria in Pregnancy and Lactation
1.13 Urticaria in Elderly
1.14 Urticaria and Comorbidities
SECTION 2: ATOPIC DERMATITIS
2.1 Clinical Features and Classification of Atopic Dermatitis
2.2 Clinical Criteria of Atopic Dermatitis Diagnosis
2.3 Differential Diagnosis in Atopic Dermatitis
2.4 Biologics in Atopic Dermatitis
2.5 Small Molecule in Atopic Dermatitis
2.6 Management of Atopic Dermatitis in Adults
2.7 Management of Atopic Dermatitis in Children
2.8 Atopic Dermatitis in Pregnancy
SECTION 3: CONTACT DERMATITIS
3.1 Irritant Contact Dermatitis
3.2 Allergic Contact Dermatitis
3.3 Airborne Contact Dermatitis
3.4 Eyelid Dermatitis
3.5 Hand Dermatitis
3.6 Perioral Dermatitis
3.7 Face Dermatitis
3.8 Noneczematous Contact Dermatitis
3.9 Occupational Contact Dermatitis
3.10 Patch Testing 128
SECTION 4: DRUG ALLERGY
4.1 Approach to Suspected Drug Reactions
4.2 Approach to Exanthematous Drug Reactions
4.3 Anaphylaxis
4.4 Management of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
4.5 Management of Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms
4.6 Penicillin Desensitization
4.7 Intradermal Tests and Skin Prick Tests in Drug Allergy
Index
