Environmental asthma /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Marcel Dekker,
©2001.
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| Series: | Lung biology in health and disease ;
v. 153. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Robert K. Bush
- Increasing asthma prevalence and the environment
- Immune mechanisms in allergic asthma
- Diagnostic approaches
- House dust mite allergens
- Animal allergens
- Fungal allergens
- Inner city problesm
- Pollen allergens
- Air pollutants
- Occupational asthma
- Immunotherapy
- Antigen-induced airway disease / Carol A. Kiekhaefer, Elizabeth A. Becky Kelly, and Nizar N. Jarjour
- Antigen sensitization
- Early-phase response
- Lateallergic response
- Role of inflammatory mediators
- Role of inflammatory cells
- Airway remodeling
- Role of house dust mite allergen exposure: assessment and control / Peyton A. Eggleston and Enrique Fernández-Caldas
- Taxonomy and biology of mites
- Assessment of mite allergens
- Molecular characteristics of mite allergens
- Relationship of allergens exposure to airway disease chronic exposure
- Acute airway response
- Environmental control measures
- Role of animal allergens: assessment and control / Robert A. Wood
- Allergens
- Environmental distribution
- Clinical aspects
- Environmental control of animal allergens
- Immunotherapy
- Role of fungal allergens: assessment and control / Robert K. Bush
- Prevalence of fungal sensitivity
- Association of fungal sensitivity with asthma
- Asthma and fungi in the indoor environment
- Fungal species found in indoor environments
- Fungal allergens
- Fungal cell wall components and their relation to asthma
- Assessment of fungal allergen exposure
- Fungal allergen avoidance measures
- Role of immunotherapy and treatment of fungus-induced asthma
- Role of seasonal pollen exposure: assessment and control / William R. Solomon
- Nature and travels of airborne pollen
- Pollen allergens and their distribution
- Evaluation of exposure
- Case for pollen-induced asthma
- Prevention and mitigation of pollen-related asthma
- Air pollution and asthma / David B. Peden
- Sulfur dioxide and acid aerosols
- Nitrogen dioxide
- Ozone
- Particulate matter
- Indoor environment and asthma / Rebecca Bascom and John J. Ouellette
- Determinants of the air in indoor environnments
- Terminology
- Modern indoor environment and asthma
- Why there are problems with indoor air quality
- Environmental hygienics: efficiency, comfort, and health
- Environmental aspects of asthma: special problems in urban populations / Jean G. Ford, Javed Iqbal, and Joanne K. Fagan
- Estimating exposures relevant to asthma
- Risk factors for asthma in urban populations
- Environmental asthma: diagnostic approaches / Jeffrey R. Stokes and Robert K. Bush
- Differential diagnosis
- Pulmonary function testing
- Radiology
- Arterial blood gases
- Other testing
- Atopy
- Occupational asthma: role of high molecular weight agents / Jean-Luc Malo, André Cartier, and Denyse Gautrin
- Frequency
- Common high molecular weight agents causing occupational asthma
- Asthma caused by high molecular weight agents as a satisfactory model for common asthma
- Role of low molecular weight agents in environmental asthma / Leslie C. Grammer
- Nonimmunological asthma: reactive airways dysfunction syndrome
- Immunological asthma
- Occupational asthma: diagnostic approaches and treatment / Jonathan A. Bernstein and David I. Bernstein
- Occupational history
- Differential diagnosis
- Immunological assessment
- Physiological assessment
- Clinical assessment of occupational asthma
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Specific immunotherapy in asthma / Pascal Demoly, François-Bernard Michel, and Jean Bousquet
- Objectives of immunotherapy
- Mechanisms of SIT in asthma
- Allergenic preparations
- Efficcy and safety of subcutaneous SIT
- Other routes for allergen administration
- Pediatric issues in immunotherapy
- Can immunotherapy alter the course of asthma?
- Indications and contraindications of immunotherapy in asthma according to recent international guidelines
- Future trends
- Future directions / Robert K. Bush
- Immune mechanisms in asthma
- Risk factors
- Population studies
- Need for identification and purification of allergens
- Exposure assessment
- Do control measures work?
- Immunotherapy.