The role of allergology in internal medicine today and vice versa
Čáp, P.
Vnitrni Lekarstvi 65(2): 143-147
2019
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-773X PMID: 30909705 Document Number: 698585
Author underlines recent growing importance of allergology as a medical discipline and offers a brief overview focused on the overlap between allergy and internal medicine. The important diagnostic and therapeutic methods are described to give an information useful for a postgraduate medical education in internal medicine. The ana-lysis of individual case history especially in allergy is emphasized. Allergen immunotherapy is described as a very modern therapeutic method with a special respect to disease modifying effect under the definite conditions. The availability of new quick dissolving tablets as a vaccine are mentioned and finally some very important steps in the therapy of the life threatening allergies are highlighted. Key words: allergen immunotherapy - allergy - FENO (Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide).