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Springer Urticaria 1st Editon 2011 Softbound by Beate M. Czarnetzki
Urticaria is a vexing problem, to the patient who teachers who have stimulated my interest and helped suffers from the annoying pruritus and the fear oflife me to understand the basic and clinical aspects of mast threatening reactions, to the physician who faces the cell-related problems is long. I would like to specifi challenge to find the cause of the eruption and to cally mention J.N. Fink during medical school train control the symptomatology, and to the scientist who ing in Milwaukee, J.R. Pomeranz and R.W. Belcher is asked to explain the process that elicits tissue during dermatology residency in Cleveland, L.M. swelling at the cellular and molecular levels. Lichtenstein and P. Norman during a research fellow The last thorough treatise on urticaria was the ship at the Department of Clinical Immunology and superb monograph by R. P. Warin and R.H. Champion, Allergy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and published more than a decade ago. Since then, there E. Macher at the University Clinics in Miinster where have been major advances in the field. This holds much of what I have learned in the past could be particularly for the clinical aspects of anaphylactoid broadened through further basic research and clinical reactions, the urticarial vasculitis syndrome, and the experience. 1 History of Urticaria.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Nomenclature.- 1.3 Pathogenetic Theories.- 1.4 The Physical Urticarias.- 1.5 Urticaria Pigmentosa.- 1.6 Angio(neurotic)edema.- 1.7 Treatment.- 2 Basic Mechanisms.- 2.1 The Wheal.- 2.2 The Mast Cell.- 2.3 Mediators.- 2.4 Overview of Pathogenetic Aspects.- 3 Acute and Chronic Urticaria.- 3.1 Definition.- 3.2 Classification.- 3.3 Epidemiology.- 3.4 Clinical Aspects.- 3.5 Histopathology.- 3.6 Laboratory Findings.- 3.7 Specific Causes of Reactions.- 3.8 Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis.- 4 Angioedema.- 4.1 General Aspects and Epidemiology.- 4.2 Classification.- 4.3 Clinical Aspects.- 4.4 Associated Diseases.- 4.5 Course and Prognosis.- 4.6 Histology and Ultrastructure.- 4.7 Pathogenesis.- 4.8 Laboratory Findings.- 4.9 Genetics.- 4.10 Diagnosis.- 4.11 Differential Diagnosis.- 5 The Physical Urticarias.- 5.1 General Aspects.- 5.2 Epidemiology and Clinical Aspects.- 5.3 Pathogenesis.- 5.4 Dermographic Urticaria (Urticaria Factitia).- 5.5 Vibratory Angioedema.- 5.6 Pressure Urticaria.- 5.7 Cold Urticaria.- 5.8 Cholinergic Urticaria.- 5.9 Solar Urticaria.- 5.10 Heat Contact Urticaria.- 5.11 Aquagenic Urticaria.- 6 Contact Urticaria.- 6.1 General Aspects and Classification.- 6.2 Clinical Manifestations.- 6.3 Immunologically Mediated Contact Urticaria.- 6.4 Contact Urticaria due to Histamine Liberators.- 6.5 Venom-Induced Contact Urticaria.- 6.6 Contact Urticaria due to Unknown Mechanisms.- 6.7 Pathomechanisms of Contact Urticaria.- 6.8 Diagnosis of Contact Urticaria.- 7 Anaphylactoid Reactions.- 7.1 Definition.- 7.2 Classification.- 7.3 Epidemiological Aspects.- 7.4 Agents Eliciting Anaphylactoid Reactions.- 7.5 Clinical Features.- 7.6 Diagnosis.- 7.7 Pathogenesis.- 7.8 Pathogenetic Aspects of Intolerance Reactions to Special Reagents.- 8 Urticarial Vasculitis Syndrome.- 8.1 General Aspects.- 8.2 Epidemiology.- 8.3 Clinical Aspects.- 8.4 Histopathology.- 8.5 Immunopathology.- 8.6 Laboratory Findings.- 8.7 Diagnosis.- 8.8 Differential Diagnosis.- 8.9 Prognosis.- 8.10 Pathogenesis.- 9 Mastocytosis (Urticaria Pigmentosa).- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.2 Cutaneous Mastocytosis.- 9.3 Systemic Mastocytosis.- 9.4 Symptomatology.- 9.5 Histology.- 9.6 Laboratory Findings.- 9.7 Diagnosis.- 9.8 Pathogenesis.- 9.9 Prognosis.- 10 Diagnosis.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2 History.- 10.3 Laboratory Procedures.- 10.4 Diagnosis by Avoidance.- 10.5 Diagnosis by Therapy.- 11 Therapy.- 11.1 Basic Therapeutic Considerations.- 11.2 Specific Therapeutic Modalities.- 11.3 Treatment of Acute and Chronic Urticaria.- 11.4 The Physical Urticarias.- 11.5 Mastocytosis.- 11.6 Urticarial Vasculitis Syndrome.- 11.7 Hereditary Angioedema.- References.