Description
For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Rheumatology Secrets, 5th Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets' popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style—making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.- The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time—succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective.- Fully revised and updated throughout, offering practical coverage of basic immunology and pathophysiology, important disease manifestations, and clinical management issues related to common and uncommon rheumatic disorders, including a new chapter on IgG4-related disease.- Keeps you up to date with new techniques and technologies, as well as changing treatment options and drug information.- Helps ensure mastery of the material with more than 100 board-style questions available online that provide effective review and quick practice for your exams.- Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams.
Table of Contents
SECTION I General Concepts1. Top 100+ Rheumatology Secrets2. Classification and Health Impact of the Rheumatic Diseases3. Anatomy and Physiology of the Musculoskeletal System4. An Overview of the Immune Response, Inflammation, and AutoimmunitySECTION II Evaluation of the Patient With Rheumatic Symptoms5. History and Physical Examination6. Laboratory Evaluation7. Arthrocentesis, Synovial Fluid Analysis, and Synovial Biopsy8. Radiographic and Imaging Modalities9. Electromyography and Nerve Conduction Studies10. Approach for Patients With Monoarticular Arthritis Symptoms11. Approach for Patients With Polyarticular Arthritis Symptoms12. Approach to the Patient With Neuromuscular Symptoms13. Perioperative Management of Patients With Rheumatic DiseasesSECTION III Systemic Connective Tissue Diseases14. Rheumatoid Arthritis15. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus16. Drug-Induced Lupus Erythematosus17. Systemic Sclerosis18. Scleroderma Mimics19. Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies20. Mixed Connective Tissue Disease, Overlap Syndromes, and Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease21. Sjögren Disease22. Antiphospholipid Syndrome23. Adult-Onset Still's Disease24. Polymyalgia RheumaticaSECTION IV The Vasculitides and Related Disorders25. Approach for Patients With Suspected Vasculitis26. Large-Vessel Vasculitis: Giant Cell Arteritis, Takayasu Arteritis, and Aortitis27. Polyarteritis Nodosa, Thromboangiitis Obliterans, and Primary Central Nervous System Vasculitis28. Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis29. Immune Complex-Mediated Small-Vessel Vasculitides30. Cryoglobulinemia31. Behçet Syndrome32. Relapsing PolychondritisSECTION V Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies33. Axial Spondyloarthritis34. Rheumatic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Diseases35. Reactive Arthritis36. Arthritis Associated With Psoriasis and Other Skin DiseasesSECTION VI Arthritis Associated With Infectious Agents37. Bacterial Septic Arthritis, Bursitis, and Osteomyelitis38. Lyme Disease39. Mycobacterial and Fungal Joint and Bone Diseases40. Viral Arthritides41. HIV-Associated Rheumatic Syndromes42. Whipple Disease43. Acute Rheumatic Fever and Poststreptococcal ArthritisSECTION VII Rheumatic Disorders Associated With Metabolic, Endocrine, and Hematologic Diseases44. Gout45. Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease46. Basic Calcium Phosphate and Other Crystalline Diseases47. Endocrine-Associated Arthropathies48. Arthropathies Associated With Hematologic Diseases49. Malignancy-Associated Rheumatic DisordersSECTION VIII Bone and Cartilage Disorders50. Osteoarthritis51. Metabolic Bone Disease52. Paget Disease of Bone53. OsteonecrosisSECTION IX Hereditary, Congenital, and Inborn Errors of Metabolism Associated With Rheumatic Syndromes54. Heritable Connective Tissue Diseases55. Inborn Errors of Metabolism Affecting Connective Tissue56. Storage and Deposition Diseases57. Rheumatologic Manifestations of the Primary Immunodeficiency Syndromes58. Skeletal DysplasiasSECTION X Nonarticular and Regional Musculoskeletal Disorders59. Approach for the Patient With Neck and Low Back Pain60. Fibromyalgia61. Regional Musculoskeletal Disorders62. Sports Medicine and Occupational Injuries63. Entrapment Neuropathies64. Complex Regional Pain SyndromeSECTION XI Neoplasms and Tumor-like Lesions65. Benign and Malignant Tumors of Joints and Synovium66. Common Bony Lesions: Radiographic FeaturesSECTION XII Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases67. Approach to the Child With Joint Pain68. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis69. Juvenile Systemic Connective Tissue Diseases and Vasculitides70. Kawasaki DiseaseSECTION XIII Miscellaneous Rheumatic Disorders71. Genetic Muscle Diseases: Metabolic and Other Genetic Muscle Disorders72. Amyloidosis73. Raynaud's Phenomenon74. Autoimmune Eye and Ear Disorders75. Rheumatic Syndromes Associated With Sarcoidosis76. IgG4-Related Disease77. Rheumatic Disorders in Patients on Dialysis78. Rheumatic Disease and the Pregnant Patient79.
