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Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Recapitulates major topics of immunology as background to a selection of real clinical cases serving to reinforce and extend the basic science. Illustrates the importance of an understanding of immunology in diagnosis and therapy. Five new cases have been added to this edition. Previous edition: c1999. Softcover.

Fred S. Rosen, the James L. Gamble Professor of Pediatrics and President of the Center for Blood Research at the Harvard Medical School Raif S. Geha is the Prince Turki Al-Saud Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Immunology, Allergy, and Rheumatology at Boston Children's Hospital

Congenital Asplenia

1

(6)

X-linked Agammaglobulinemia

7

(10)

Hyper IgM Immunodeficiency

17

(8)

MHC Class I Deficiency

25

(6)

X-linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency

31

(8)

Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency

39

(6)

Toxic Shock Syndrome

45

(6)

Contact Sensitivity to Poison Ivy

51

(8)

Omenn Syndrome

59

(6)

Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema

65

(6)

Factor I Deficiency

71

(6)

Graft-Versus-Host Disease

77

(4)

AIDS in Mother and Child

81

(8)

Acute Infectious Mononucleosis

89

(8)

Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency

97

(8)

Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome

105

(8)

X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome

113

(8)

Chronic Granulomatous Disease

121

(6)

Allergic Asthma

127

(8)

Myasthenia Gravis

135

(6)

MHC Class II Deficiency

141

(6)

Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn

147

(6)

Multiple Sclerosis

153

(6)

Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia

159

(6)

A Kidney Graft for Complications of Autoimmune Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

165

(8)

Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS)

173

(6)

Pemphigus Vulgaris

179

(6)

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

185

(6)

Acute Systemic Anaphylaxis

191

(6)

Drug-Induced Serum Sickness

197

(6)

Multiple Myeloma

203

(6)

T-Cell Lymphoma

209

(8)

Interferon-γ Receptor Deficiency

217

(6)

Lepromatous Leprosy

223

(8)

Atopic Dermatitis

231

(8)

Index

239

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Case Studies in Immunology

Case Studies in Immunology

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