Vnitr Lek 2019, 65(2):143-147 | DOI: 10.36290/vnl.2019.028

The role of allergology in internal medicine today and vice versa

Petr Čáp
Centrum alergologie a klinické imunologie, Nemocnice Na Homolce, Praha

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 analysis 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.

Keywords: allergen immunotherapy; allergy; FENO (Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide)

Received: June 26, 2018; Accepted: November 26, 2018; Published: February 1, 2019  Show citation

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