Essential Clinical Immunology (Essentials)

by HelenChapel (Author), Mansel Haeney (Author), SirajMisbah (Author), NeilSnowden (Author)

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  1999

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  The fourth edition of this highly popular book has been extensively revised. The first chapter, a revision of the immune system, has been updated to provide the 'nitty-gritty' a student or trainee needs to know in order to understand diseases that have an immunological basis. The rest of the book's focus is clinical but covers the underlying pathophysiology of disease so that the reader is left with a lasting grasp of the basis of symptoms, signs, special investigations and management of the patient. It will be of great value to medical students and postgraduate trainees who require a thorough knowledge of the rapidly expanding number of diseases that have an immunological basis. Other features of the book include: selected case-histories that cover key learning points; questions (multiple choice) and answers to help test understanding; updates on immune diseases, immunotherapy and transplantation; new sections on chemokines and their role in inflamation, viral infections and much, much more. There is also a dedicated website that provides updates, further case-histories and references together with short commentary on evidence for new or controversial statements in the text.

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  1988

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  Essentials of Clinical Endocrinology makes use of illustrative case histories and flow charts to demonstrate the usefulness of clinical immunology in the diagnosis and management of a great number and variety of human diseases. It is aimed at both the practising clinician and the medical student. The second edition has put AIDS into its overall clinical context, along with its differential diagnosis. AIDS is discussed in immunodeficiency as well as in each diseased organ system (e.g. skin, chest and nervous system). The chapter on basic immunology now contains more on interleukins and also includes T cell receptors. The relevance of the new DNA technology is discussed both in the techniques chapter and also with regard to new synthetic vaccines in the chapter on immune manipulation. Here too, the use of immune modulators (such as interleukin 2 and inteferon) in clinical trials has been anticipated. The role of bone marrow transplantation has been revised and in the chapter on lymphoproliferation, gene rearrangement has been included in the context of diagnosis of lymphoproliferative diseases.