Overview
- Easily accessible guide for dermatologists and residents, as well as general practitioners, summarizing the most important concepts that will help physicians identify the signs and symptoms of Contact Urticaria Syndrome in their daily clinical practice
- Each chapter is laid out in the following format: Concepts, Tools and Algorithms of Diagnosis and Management, a Clinical Case for each entry, and Recommendations
- Provides a global approach to this syndrome using internationally standardized requirements for diagnosis
- Part of the Updates in Clinical Dermatology series
Part of the book series: Updates in Clinical Dermatology (UCD)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Contact urticaria is an immediate but transient localized swelling and redness that occurs on the skin after direct contact with an offending substance. It is caused by a variety of compounds, such as foods, preservatives, fragrances, plant and animal products, metals, and rubber latex and the mechanism by which these provoke an immediate urticarial rash at the area of contact can be divided into two categories: non-immunological contact urticaria and immunological (allergic) contact urticaria. Non-immunological contact urticaria typically causes mild localized reactions that clear within hours, e.g. stinging nettle rash. This type of urticaria occurs without prior exposure of a patient's immune system to an allergen. Immunological contact urticaria occurs most commonly in atopic individuals (people who are prone to allergy). Hence prior exposure to an allergen is required for this type of contact urticaria to occur.
While there have been other texts written on the subject over the last decade, this book is intended as an easily accessible guide for dermatologists and residents, as well as general practitioners, summarizing the most important concepts that will help physicians identify the signs and symptoms of Contact Urticaria Syndrome in their daily clinical practice. Each chapter is laid out in the following format: Concepts, Tools and Algorithms of Diagnosis and Management, a Clinical Case for each entry, and Recommendations. Additionally, the Volume Editors have worked to provide a global approach to this syndrome using internationally standardized requirements for diagnosis.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Howard Maibach is a professor in the Department of Dermatology at UCSF and is an expert in contact and occupational dermatitis and His specialties are dermatotoxicology, or skin exposure toxicity; allergies and skin disorders; and dermatopharmacology or the study of medications for skin disorders. Dr. Maibach has been on the editorial board of more than 30 scientific journals and is a member of 19 professional societies including the American Academy of Dermatology, San Francisco Dermatological Society and the Internal Commission on Occupation Health.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contact Urticaria Syndrome
Book Subtitle: Diagnosis and Management
Editors: Ana M. Giménez-Arnau, Howard I. Maibach
Series Title: Updates in Clinical Dermatology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89764-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89763-9Published: 16 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07851-5Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89764-6Published: 28 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2523-8884
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8892
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 186
Topics: Dermatology