224 Pages 211 Color Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    This book provides the reader with a complete and concise introduction to rheumatic illness. While rheumatic disease often manifests itself in conditions affecting the musculoskeletal system, the authors stress that a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach is needed for diagnosis, to aid understanding of rheumatic disease with multisystem involvement.

    Rheumatology, A Color Handbook covers epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of each condition. Common forms of arthritis (including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, gout and others) are covered in addition to allied conditions including vasculitis, osteoporosis, lupus and other allied health conditions.

    The book is useful for recently qualified physicians/residents, general practitioners, medical students, and other healthcare professionals involved in the care of patients with rheumatic disease.

    GENERAL ISSUES
    Introduction to rheumatic conditions
    A synopsis of immunology in rheumatic disease
    Assessment of the patient with suspected rheumatic condition
    Pregnancy in rheumatic diseases
    Pharmacological treatment of rheumatic disease
    Non-pharmacological treatment of rheumatic disease
    OSTEOARTHRITIS AND INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS
    Osteoarthritis
    Rheumatoid arthritis
    Gout
    CPPD deposition, pseudogout and chrondorcalcinosis
    Adult onset Still’s disease
    Septic arthritis
    Viral arthritis
    Lyme disease
    Rheumatic fever
    SERONEGATIVE SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY
    Spondyloarthropathy overview
    Ankylosing spondylitis
    Reactive arthritis
    Psoriatic arthritis
    Inflammatory bowel disease associated arthritis
    Uveitis
    Behcet’s disease
    PEDIATRIC RHEUMATIC CONDITIONS
    Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
    Hereditary periodic fevers
    CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES
    Raynaud’s phenomenon
    Sjögren’s syndrome
    Systemic lupus erythematosus
    Drug induced lupus
    Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
    Polymyositis and dermatomyositis
    Scleroderma
    Mixed connective tissue disease and undifferentiated connective tissue disease
    Relapsing Polychondritis
    VASCULITIS
    Vasculitis overview and classification
    Giant cell arteritis
    Takayasu’s arteritis
    ANCA associated vasculitis
    Polyarteritis nodosa
    Immune complex mediated small vessel vasculitis
    Kawasaki’s disease
    Thromboangitis obliterans (Buerger’s disease)
    Primary angiitis of the central nervous system
    OTHER RHEUMATIC CONDITIONS
    Osteoporosis
    Fibromyalgia and other soft tissue syndromes
    Sarcoidosis
    Amyloidosis
    Miscellaneous rheumatic conditions
    Further reading
    Index

    Biography

    Ted Mikuls, Amy Cannella, Gerald Moore, James O'Dell, Alan Erikson, Geoffrey Thiele