Full Description
The Digestive System in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Second Edition, represents the state-of-the-art in the field of digestive disorders in the most common systemic autoimmune diseases. This volume consists of an introductory chapter on imaging techniques in digestive diseases, followed by eight chapters on digestive manifestations in specific systemic autoimmune diseases. The final five chapters deal with digestive diseases with an autoimmune pathogenesis and systemic manifestations. International in scope, the table of contents reads like a Who's who in clinical research on systemic autoimmune diseases. More than 20 contributors from the European Union, the United States, Mexico, and South Africa share their knowledge in this detailed volume. The book provides an overview of our current understanding of digestive disorders in the most common systemic autoimmune diseases.
Contents
Section I Introduction
1. Digestive System and Autoimmunity
2. Immunopathogenesis of Autoimmune Liver Damage
3. Autoantibodies in Gastrointestinal Autoimmune Diseases
4. Imaging Techniques in Digestive Diseases
Section II Autoimmune Liver Diseases
5. Primary Biliary Cholangitis
6. Autoimmune Hepatitis
7. Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Section III Autoimmune Manifestations of Viral Hepatitis
8. Systemic and Autoimmune Manifestations of Hepatitis B Virus Infection
9. Extrahepatic Manifestations in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection
10. New Antivirals for Extrahepatic Manifestations of Hepatitis C Virus: The Model of Mixed Cryoglobulinemia Vasculitis
Section IV Gastrointestinal Involvement of Systemic Diseases
11. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
12. Digestive Involvement in the Antiphospholipid Syndrome
13. Gastrointestinal Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis
14. Gastrointestinal Involvement in Inflammatory Myositis
15. Digestive Involvement in Primary Sjögren's Syndrome
16. Gastrointestinal Involvement in Systemic Vasculitis
17. Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
18. Gastrointestinal Manifestations of Rheumatoid Arthritis
19. Spondyloarthritis and Gastrointestinal Involvement
20. Intestinal Behçet's Disease
21. Gastrointestinal Involvement of Sarcoidosis
22. IgG4-Related Disease: Gastrointestinal Involvement
23. Gastrointestinal Complications of Antirheumatic Drugs
