Case Studies in Immunology: A Clinical Companion
Posted by admin | Posted in Immunology | Posted on 11-08-2010
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Product Description
Case Studies in Immunology, Fifth Edition, cites major topics of immunology as the background to a selection of real clinical cases that serve to reinforce and extend the basic science. This new edition vividly illustrates the importance of an understanding of immunology in diagnosis and therapy. As well as being a valuable review aid, Case Studies in Immunology introduces in a clinical setting the major common disorders of immunity, including hypersensitivity types I-IV and autoimmune disorders such as lupus and multiple sclerosis. It also describes and explains the consequences of some of the most important immune deficiencies. Each case history is preceded by basic scientific facts essential to understanding the immunology behind the disease or disorder. An end-of-case summary, questions, and discussion points finish each case. Case Studies in Immunology can be used as a stand-alone book, or as a clinical companion alongside Immunobiology, Sixth Edition (ISBN 0-8153-4101-6) and The Immune System, Second Edition (ISBN 0-8153-4093-1).
Key Features:
Contains FIVE new cases bringing the total number of cases included to 47: Hereditary Periodic Fever Syndromes; Interleukin Receptor-associated Kinase Deficiency; Common Variable Immunodeficiency; Immune Dysregulation, Polyendocrinopathy, Enteropathy, X-linked Disease; Celiac Disease.
Each case describes real events and symptoms from case histories, ensuring that the reader is presented with, assesses, and evaluates a realistic clinical situation.
Full-color illustrations, photographs, and micrographs throughout complement the text.
Contains helpful case summary notes in margin.
Cases end with a discussion and question section; this useful pedagogic tool is designed to highlight lessons learned from individual cases.
Can be used as a clinical companion to Immunobiology, Sixth Edition, and The Immune System, Second Edition.
Case Studies in Immunology: A Clinical Companion
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Guys, this book is very poorly organized and the previous reviewer either is bribed by the authors or he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. This, by far, is the WORST textbook I’ve seen in my 5 years of college career. Look I am not bitter and I am a good student with a 3.9 GPA.
I will back up my reasons why this book is bad. The illustrations do not come with legends or labels. Readers are suppoed to guess what the white circle, black squares, green circles stand for. Plus the authors only give a very sketchy introduction to the diseases and they don’t explains anything well enough for you to understand the questions. The answers to the discussion questions do not make sense and most of the time not relevant to the questions at all.
If your instructor is requiring you to purchase this text, he/she is doing you a MAJOR disservice… ask the instructor to reconsider the adoptation of any casebook, otherwise drop the course.
Rating: 1 / 5
Not what I expected. It was not written the way other “case” oriented texts are in my opinion.
Rating: 2 / 5
it is really an excellent book with it’s illustrations and the questions at the end of each case.
Rating: 5 / 5
It was in excellent condition even with the few underlined sections or highlighted parts, in my opinion those only make text books more valuable.
Rating: 5 / 5
My use of this book is probably a little different from most of the other reviewers here. My medical school immunology course used a different book (Lippincott’s Immunology, which is passable); a year later, while studying for my USMLE step 1, I didn’t want to waste time re-reading the basics in a textbook (i.e. I didn’t need to read a 20-page chapter about the difference between innate and adaptive immunity). I also wasn’t satisfied with the level of detail in my review books, which were fine for physiology but very weak in describing genetic immunodeficiency syndromes.
That’s the benefit of this book– the basics are there, but are integrated into cases alongside more “advanced” concepts. If you already have a good grasp on basic immunology (adaptive vs. innate, B vs. T, CD4 vs. CD8, Th1 vs. Th2), this is a much easier way to learn the complexities of immunodeficiency syndromes or autoimmune diseases (most of the cases in this book are one or the other). As such, I would definitely recommend using this book for a boards review of immunology (if you can spare a day or two from your review schedule to read it– it’s about 300 pages). It covers ALL the relevant immunology– I can’t imagine being surprised by an immuno question on test day if you know what’s in here.
That said, I would NOT recommend this book as a starting point for learning immunology (and based on some of the other reviews here, that is unfortunately how it has occasionally been used). This was never meant to be a stand-alone immunology text, and I honestly can’t imagine why it would be assigned as the text for an undergraduate introductory course. There are several good introductory immunology books out there– the one I used is Sompayrac’s “How the Immune System Works,” but you have lots of choices. Once you have the basics, though, this book is excellent for making the jump to clinical immunology.
Rating: 5 / 5