Teaching Curriculum: Total and Allergen-Specific IgE
Priorities:
Pediatrics 3, Internal Medicine 4
Family Practice 4, Student 4
OBJECTIVES
Upon completion the rotator should be able to:
- List ranges of normal serum IgE levels according to age:
- newborn
- one-year-old child
- ten-year-old child
- adult
- Discuss sensitivity and specificity of total serum IgE level as a screening test for patients with allergic disease
- Describe in vitro techniques available to assay allergen specific IgE
- Describe how the results of in vitro allergen-specific IgE assays are reported in clinical practice
- List conditions in which levels of total serum IgE are elevated; include examples of atopic and non-atopic diseases
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