Full Description
The Heart in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Second Edition, provides an overview on our current understanding of major complications relating to the heart and autoimmune diseases. It includes the latest information on the new pathogenetic mechanisms involved, along with clinical manifestations of these important comortbidities. Mortality in autoimmune diseases, in particular, rheumatoid arthritis and SLE, has increased when compared with the general population. This excess mortality is largely due to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs)-particularly those of atherosclerotic origin, such as ischemic heart disease-and is gaining recognition in all branches of medicine, from cardiology, to internal medicine, and from rheumatologists to orthopedics.
Contents
1. Cellular Immunity: A Role for Cytokines
2. Organ-Specific Autoimmunity Involvement in Cardiovascular Disease
3. Neonatal Lupus Syndromes: Pathogenesis and Clinical Features
4. Subclinical Cardiovascular Damage in Systemic Rheumatic Diseases
5. Atherosclerosis and Autoimmunity
6. Inflammasomes and Inflammatory Cytokines in Early Atherosclerosis
7. Treatment of Lipid Metabolism Disturbances in Autoimmune Diseases
8. Cardiac Imaging Techniques in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases
9. New Cardiac Imaging Tools and Invasive Techniques in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases (Part II)
10. Cardiac Diseases in Rheumatoid Arthritis
11. Cardiac Involvement in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
12. Cardiac Involvement in the Antiphospholipid Syndrome
13. Cardiac Involvement in Scleroderma
14. Cardiac Involvement in Systemic Vasculitis
15. Cardiovascular Involvement in Ankylosing Spondylitis
16. Cardiovascular Involvement in Psoriatic Arthritis
17. Cardiovascular Involvement in Primary Sjögren's Syndrome
18. Gout and Heart Disease: A Two-Way Street?
19. Heart Involvement in Osteoarthritis
20. Cardiac Effects of Antirheumatic Drugs
