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Stiehm's Immune Deficiencies

Stiehm's Immune Deficiencies focuses on immunodeficiencies in children and adults. This book covers the many advances in the study of immunodeficiency. Stiehm's Immune… Read more

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Stiehm's Immune Deficiencies focuses on immunodeficiencies in children and adults. This book covers the many advances in the study of immunodeficiency. Stiehm's Immune Deficiencies includes 62 chapters covering topics such as newly described syndromes, genetic diagnosis, molecular abnormalities, newborn screening, and current therapies.

Key features

  • Provides practical guidance to practitioners dealing with the day-to-day issues of diagnosis and management of immune deficient patients
  • Covers both clinical management and scientific advances in one place
  • Includes newly described disorders in various periodic updates to maintain the breadth of the reference

Readership

All professionals in clinical immunology, immunology, microbiology, trainees in immunology and allergy

Table of contents

Section I. General Considerations
Section II. Primary Immune Deficiencies
Section III. Secondary Immune Deficiencies
Section IV. Management

Review quotes

"...a detailed, high-quality book on the diagnosis and management of patients with immune deficiency syndromes. It addresses issues of patient care as well as current research data, and presents information on differential diagnoses and data on the use of laboratory analyses. Score: 97 - 5 Stars"—Doody's

"...appealing to an extended audience including general internists, infectious disease specialists, rheumatologists, and all physicians dealing with transplant recipients…an excellent reference book inthe field of immunology that should be part of every library."—Clinical Infectious Diseases

Product details

About the editors

KS

Kathleen E. Sullivan

Professor of Pediatrics, at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

B.A., M.A. (Biophysics), Johns Hopkins University, 1980. Ph.D. (Immunology & Biochemistry)

University of California at San Francisco, 1988. M.D. University of California at San Francisco, 1988.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy Immunology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

ES

E. Richard Stiehm

MD, University of Wisconsin Medical School 1957

Affiliated at: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital

UCLA Children's Health Center

200 UCLA Medical Plaza Suite 265

Los Angeles, CA 90095

MEDICAL BOARD CERTIFICATION

Clinical & Laboratory Immunology, American Board of Allergy and Immunology, 1986

Allergy & Immunology, American Board of Allergy and Immunology, 1974

Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics, 1964

Fellowship: Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, 1958 - 1959

Residency, Immunology, Moffitt Hospital, 1963 - 1965, Pediatrics, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1961 - 1963

Internship

Rotating Intern, Philadelphia General Hospital, 1957 - 1958

Medical Degree

MD, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1957

2009 Special Recognition Award from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI)

Dr. E. Richard Stiehm, professor of paediatrics in the division of allergy, immunology and rheumatology at Mattel Children's Hospital at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), was presented with the 2007 Abbott Laboratories Award.

Affiliations and expertise
Chief, Division of Immunology/Allergy, UCLA Department of Pediatrics; Professor of Pediatrics, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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