Rezaei Nima (ed.) Pediatric Immunology: A Case-Based Collection with MCQs, Volume 2

Springer, 2019. — 792 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-21261-2This book comprises a collection of categorized case-based questions, directed and meticulously selected to cover the most common and most important aspects of immunodeficiency diseases. Immunodeficiency disorders of infancy and childhood such as antibody deficiencies, phagocyte defects and defects in innate immunity are addressed among others. Each chapters starts with a brief of the initial presentation and lab data of the patient, followed by a series of 5-6 multiple choice questions (MCQs), leading the reader to the diagnosis and best of practice in a step-wise manner. This MCQ format along with precise, yet detailed answer ensures a quick, case-based, reality learning to the reader. This comprehensive MCQ series, is an essential reading material that a pediatric clinician, hematologist, immunologist, transplant specialist, or pulmonologist, can not afford to miss.Introduction to Primary Immunodeficiencies
Workup of Recurrent Respiratory Infections and a Positive Family History
Pseudomonas Meningitis
Fever and Sleepiness
Recurrent Pneumonia
Developmental Regression
Recurrent Ear Infections and Pneumonia
Positive Urine Culture for Klebsiella pneumoniae
Brothers with Recurrent Sinopulmonary Infections and Chronic Lung Disease
Recurrent Infections and Arthritis
Initial Diagnosis of Neutropenia and Later Crohn’s Disease
Diagnosis of “Sweat-Chloride Negative” Cystic Fibrosis
Diagnosis of Sarcoidosis
Refractory Crohn’s disease
Asthma Which Was Not Asthma
Generalized Lymphadenopathy and Hypogammaglobulinemia After Abdominal Trauma
Weakness and Anemia
Normal Primary Care Workup for Recurrent Sinopulmonary Infections
Recurrent Sinusitis and Persistent Giardia Infection
Recurrent Respiratory Infections
Siblings Presenting with Mild and Severe Lymphoproliferation
Non-Malignant Lymphoproliferation
Portal Hypertension and Progressive Lymphoproliferation
Recurrent Otitis and Upper Airway Obstruction
Recurrent Pneumonia