Abstract
Biological treatment is a phenomenon of 21st century medicine. It has changed therapeutic approaches in many diseases whose etiopathogenesis is involved in immune system dysfunction, and has made a major contribution to improving the prognosis and quality of life of patients.
The eighth volume of the Motol Pediatric Seminar series, entitled Biological Treatment in Pediatrics, summarizes professional contributions from the fields of immunology, pediatric dermatology, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric nephrology, pediatric diabetology and pediatric oncology. All this is complemented by news from the covid era and selected case studies.
The authors describe and explain the relatively general term biological treatment in relation to all three of its definitions: in a narrower definition as immunotherapy, then as treatment including human immunological medicinal products (vaccines, toxins, serums, allergens) and in the broadest sense all medicinal products manufactured biotechnologically, recombinant technology - vaccines, growth factors, immune modulators, monoclonal antibodies, protein-based drugs, human blood and plasma products. Biology brings a new quality to human medicine and the aim of this volume is to make news about diagnostics and therapy from pediatrics and its subfields accessible to a wide community of paediatricians.