Oxford Handbook of Clinical Immunology and Allergy

This new edition of Clinical Immunology and Allergy is a practical and clinically based guide for clinicians and laboratory staff to aid diagnosis and management of immunological and allergic disease, and provides examples of the correct selection and interpretation of immunological tests for a wide range of conditions. Fully updated from the previous edition, with the addition of new diseases recently identified from the use of genetic testing, and novel biological therapies and autoantibody tests, this title covers the entire breadth of the field, with the information at your fingertips.

Split into two sections, the first covering individual diseases and allergies, with diagnosis and management strategies, and the second describing appropriate laboratory tests and their interpretation, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Immunology and Allergy is an invaluable reference text, and works as a succinct revision guide for the FRCPath in Immunology. Filled with cross-references to create a cohesive overview of a complex subject, and presented in concise bullet-points for detailed direction to the key facts, this handbook provides everything you need to help you in clinical practice.

Table of Contents

1: Primary immunodeficiency
2: Secondary immunodeficiency and other host-defence syndromes
3: Allergic disease
4: Autoimmunity and the endocrine system
5: Autoimmunity affecting the nervous system
6: Autoimmunity associated with cardiac, respiratory, and renal disease
7: Autoimmunity in gastrointestinal disease
8: Autoimmunity in liver disease
9: Autoimmune haematological disorders
10: Autoimmune skin disorders
11: Autoimmune eye disease
12: Connective tissue disease
13: Vasculitis
14: Miscellaneous conditions, including autoinflammatory syndromes
15: Transplantation
16: Immunotherapy
17: Immunochemistry
18: Autoantibodies
19: Allergy tests
20: Cellular investigations
21: Tissue typing
22: Quality and managerial issues

Gavin Spickett has been a Consultant Clinical Immunologist & Allergist In Newcastle upon Tyne since 1991, after training in Oxford, Ipswich and Northwick Park. He has in addition, until quite recently, been a general physician participating in unselected medical admissions. He has been responsible for the development of the Regional Immunology Laboratory, and clinical services for the North-East and Cumbria. He has particular clinical interest in primary immune deficiencies, allergic and autoimmune diseases and chronic fatigue as well as quality standards in clinical and laboratory immunology.