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This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they exist. The article ends with the author's clinical recommendations.

A 19-year-old woman is brought to the emergency room because of the acute onset of dyspnea, wheezing, vomiting, and generalized flushing. She has well-controlled asthma as well as a history of atopic dermatitis as an infant and urticaria after ingesting peanut butter at the age of five years. According to friends she ate a chocolate-chip cookie from a vending machine in her . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Clinical Problem

Strategies and Evidence

Diagnosis

Management

Areas of Uncertainty

Cause of the Increasing Prevalence of Peanut Allergy

Therapy for Peanut Allergy

Guidelines

Conclusions and Recommendations

Source Information

From the Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Sampson at the Department of Pediatrics, Box 1198, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L. Levy Pl., New York, NY 10538, or at hugh.sampson@mssm.edu.

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