1st Edition

Interdisciplinary Rheumatology: Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases

200 Pages 5 Color & 5 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

200 Pages 5 Color & 5 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Rheumatologists frequently confront infections that complicate, mimic, or arise from the treatment of autoimmune disease, demanding careful distinction from disease flare and thoughtful management of immunosuppression. Infectious disease specialists express a reciprocal need: deepening their understanding of immune dysregulation, immunomodulatory therapies, and the systemic manifestations that... Read more

1. Septic Arthritis & Bursitis

Daniel Jose Escobar

2. Viral Arthritides

Valida Bajrovic
Olivia Ghaw
Raagni Kumar
Sanah Siddiqui

3. Fungal arthritis

Nicholas M. Forrister
Peter G. Pappas

4. Musculoskeletal Manifestations of Lyme and Lyme Arthritis

Mena Miranda
Oscar Dario

5. Prosthetic Joint Infections

Tarek Abdalla
Daniela De Lima Corvino
John C. Shell

6. Musculoskeletal Manifestations and Rheumatological Mimics of Mycobacterial Infections

Christopher K. Lippincott
Jeremy S. Nel

7. Whipple’s Disease: The Great Masquerader

Vishal Patel
Rebecca Fitzpatrick
Kamini Kuchinad

8. Reactive Arthritis

Talia Meisel
 Emily Carroll

9. Opportunistic infections in the immunocompromised host

Aditi Jani
Cesar G. Berto

10.Infectious Mimics of Primary Systemic Vasculitis

Brendan Denvir
Brendan Antiochos

11. Antimicrobial prophylaxis in Rheumatic Diseases and Immunocompromising Conditions

Angela Cotera
Mariana Urquiaga
Mauricio Kahn

12. Vaccination in Immunosuppressed Patients

Sabrina Kopf
Jeremey Walker

13. Infection Risks Associated with Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs

Kalarickad Maria Koshy
Francisco Machiavello Roman

14. COVID-19 (exposure/risk in immunocompromised patients, immunosuppression management, treatment, MIS-C)

Hareem Farooq, 
Jorge Vergara Rossi, Giovanna Rosas Chavez,
Angelo Gaffo

15. HLH and infection

Maria Daniela Jarrin Jara
Margaret E McCort

16. Immunomodulator-associated infectious complications.

David Sebastian D. Garcia

Sanya J Thomas

Biography

Dr. Maria Salgado, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from Universidad del Azuay, in Ecuador. She then completed her Internal Medicine Residency Training and Chief Resident Year at Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, followed by Rheumatology Fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Salgado is certified in musculoskeletal ultrasound through the Ultrasound School of North American Rheumatologists (USSONAR) and the American College of Rheumatology (RhMSUS), skills she incorporates into her daily clinical practice. Her clinical interests include sarcoidosis and spondylarthritis, including psoriatic arthritis.  She is the Director of the Multidisciplinary Sarcoidosis Clinic and part of the Center for Pericardial Diseases at Columbia University, which provide comprehensive and integrated care to these patients with systemic inflammatory conditions. Dr. Salgado has a strong interest in medical education and is involved in teaching Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology to medical students, residents, and clinical fellows.

Dr. Michael Cammarata, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from Eastern Virginia Medical School, completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and pursued subspecialty training in Rheumatology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Cammarata is certified in musculoskeletal ultrasound through the Ultrasound School of North American Rheumatologists (USSONAR) and the American College of Rheumatology (RhMSUS), and he practices diagnostic ultrasound in the Johns Hopkins Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Injection Clinic. His clinical interests also include vasculitis, and he sees patients at the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center. As a hospitalist, he co-directs the Division of Hospital Medicine’s efforts to care for patients with rheumatic disease undergoing CAR-T cell therapy. Before medical school, he taught elementary school English in Madrid, Spain. He is passionate about medical education, particularly clinical reasoning, feedback, and mentorship. He facilitates large-group, case-based rheumatology sessions for preclinical medical students in the Organ Systems Foundations of Clinical Medicine course at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dr. J. Martin Rodriguez, MD, is the C. Glenn Cobbs, MD. Chair in Infectious Diseases, Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, in Peru. He then completed his Internal Medicine Residency Training and Chief Resident Year at UAB, followed by an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the combined Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital training program. He is the Director of the Tinsley Harrison General Medicine Service and the Co-Director of the UAB Undiagnosed Diseases Program. His clinical interests include internal medicine and general infectious diseases.