Full Description
This volume aims at delivering the state-of-the-art scientific and clinical know-how for the management of patients with Connective Tissue Diseases (CTDs). With contributions from leading specialists from different disciplines, it presents the latest research findings on many aspects of the diseases in a clear, comprehensive way, and describes the most recent trends in treatment, such as the "treat to target" approach. Both basic science and clinical medicine are addressed, with emphasis on the most promising clinical and laboratory-based studies. The coverage is comprehensive in scope, and includes epidemiology, pathogenesis, autoantibodies and biomarkers, disease manifestations, involvement of different organs or systems, the relationships with other disorders, and biological therapy. Readers will find this second volume to be an excellent source of information on the current understanding of CTDs, and clinical approach to CTD, clearly conveying the progress made in recent years. Connective Tissue Disease - A Comprehensive Guide Vol.2 will be an invaluable source of up-to-date information for all practitioners involved in the care of patients with these complex diseases.
Contents
Preface.- 1 From diagnosis to classification and back: historical perspective.- 2 Rheumatoid Arthritis.- Psoriatic Arthritis.- 3 Cryoglobulinemia and hypocryoglobulinemia.- 4 IgG4 diseases.- 5 Nailfold videcapillaroscopy in connective tissue diseases.- 6 Systemic Sclerosis.- 7 Polymyositis/Dermatomyositis.- 8 Antisynthetase syndrome.- 9 Polycondritis.- 10 Mixed and undifferentiated connective tissue disease.- 11 Periaortitis and retroperitoneal fibrosis.- 12 Overview on CTD in the paediatric age.- 13 Overview on CTD in the elderly.- 14 Rheumatic and nephrologic complications of checkpoint inhibitors.- 15 Pulmonary involvement in Rheumatic diseases.- 16 Nephrologic involvement in Rheumatic diseases.- 17 Cardiologic involvement in Rheumatic diseases.- 18 Neurologic involvement in Rheumatic diseases.- 19 Bone involvement in rheumatic diseases.- 20 Pregnancy in Rheumatic diseases.- 21 Management of infections in Rheumatic diseases: Andrade Danieli.- 22 Advances in laboratory diagnosis of rheumatic diseases.
