Clinician’s Manual on Lupus

✍ Scribed by Professor Graham R. V. Hughes MD FRCP, Dr Shirish Sangle MD (auth.), Professor Graham R. V. Hughes MD FRCP, Dr Shirish Sangle MD (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Healthcare Communications
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 99
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Clinician’s Manual on Lupus is an expert overview of Lupus and related conditions that serves as an educational resource for medical students, physicians and other medical professionals with an interest in rheumatology. The book is an up-to-date introduction to the disease and includes high quality colour photographs and evidence-based guidelines for diagnosing, treating and managing Lupus in primary care.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages XI-XI
Lupus: An introduction....Pages 1-3
What is lupus?....Pages 5-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Skin....Pages 11-17
Tendons and joints....Pages 19-21
Kidney....Pages 23-25
The brain....Pages 27-31
Heart and blood vessels....Pages 33-38
Liver and gastrointestinal tract....Pages 39-40
Blood....Pages 41-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Diagnosing lupus....Pages 45-52
Treatment....Pages 53-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Sjögren’s syndrome....Pages 63-72
Hughes syndrome (the antiphospholipid syndrome)....Pages 73-80
Mixed connective tissue disease (and overlap syndromes)....Pages 81-84
Vasculitis....Pages 85-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Lupus-related topics....Pages 97-100

✦ Subjects

Rheumatology; Health Administration; Medicine/Public Health, general