Cutaneous Manifestations of Infection in the Immunocompromised Host

The updated second edition  of Cutaneous Manifestations of Infection in the Immunocompromised Host is an invaluable reference for physicians and ancillary medical professionals involved in the care of patients with impaired immune systems due to cancer, chemotherapy, systemic steroids and other immunosuppressive drugs, HIV/AIDS or  organ transplantation. This volume  will help you recognize skin lesions  and diagnose their infectious cause. Textbook features include:

·         Over 350 color images demonstrating pathognomonic, atypical, rare and routine skin lesions

·         Tables for differential diagnosis of different skin lesions in the immunocompromised host

·         Complete coverage of infectious pathogens with the patterns of infection and the likely causes in different clinical settings (HIV/AIDS versus solid organ transplantation versus neutropenia post-chemotherapy versus bone marrow recovery post hematopoietic stem cell transplantation )

·         New chapter discussing the role of viruses causing malignancies with cutaneous signs in the immunocompromised patient

Written by dermatologists, the new edition is an indispensable  diagnostic tool intended for use by all clinicians  who care for immunocompromised patients.

• AIDS
• HIV
• bone marrow transplantation
• cutaneous lesions
• dermatology
• immunosuppresive illness
• infectious disease
• skin eruption
• infectious diseases

From the reviews of the second edition:

“This is a comprehensive compilation of what is known about the entire spectrum of cutaneous infection in the immunocompromised host. … this book is intended for any physicians who care for immunocompromised patients, including internists, transplant surgeons, infectious disease specialists, pediatricians, rheumatologists, and hematologist/oncologists. … This book offers valuable information that is rarely presented in one place. It is a practical guide that can be used in daily practice and belongs in the library of any physician seeing immunocompromised patients.” (Renata H. Mullen, Doody’s Reviews, April, 2012)

“This book is intended to be a clinical dermatological manual. In this regard, the various sections are extremely and amply well illustrated. The photographs are in color, well illuminated, and focused beautifully for the characteristic lesion discussed to be easily identified. … For physicians and allied care personnel involved in managing such patients, this book will visually complement standard textbooks of infectious diseases.” (Donald C. Vinh, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vol. 55, November, 2012)

“This book fills a niche which is not well covered in the clinical literature. … It is targeted towards the more informed clinician who is used to managing immunosuppressed patients … .There is no doubt that this book fills an important gap left in the larger textbooks on infectious diseases and for this, as an infectious diseases doctor, I welcome this volume and will undoubtedly find it useful.” (Jon S. Friedland, Immunology News, November, 2012)

• College of Physicians and Surgeons, Director, Hospital Consultation Service, Professor of Clinical Dermatology, New York, USA

  Marc E. Grossman

• Clinical Dermatology, Director, Hospital Consultation Service, Assistant Professor of, San Francisco, USA

  Lindy P. Fox

• Dermatopathology, and Infectious Disease, University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Philadelphia, USA

  Carrie Kovarik

• and Internal Medicine, Director,, Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Philadelphia, USA

  Misha Rosenbach

Marc E. Grossman, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Professor of Clinical Dermatology

College of Physicians and Surgeons

Director, Hospital Consultation Service

New York Presbyterian Hospital,

Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY

Lindy P. Fox, M.D.

Associate Professor of

Clinical Dermatology

Director, Hospital Consultation Service

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California

Carrie Kovarik, MD

Assistant Professor of Dermatology,

Dermatopathology, and Infectious Diseases

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Misha Rosenbach, MD

and Internal Medicine

Director

Dermatology Inpatient Consult Service

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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