Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology Expert Consult Premium Edition: Enhanced Online Features and Print, 2-Volume Set

Description

Staying current in a field that’s advancing rapidly is difficult. Now more than ever, Kelley’s Textbook of Rheumatology, 8th Edition helps you better understand today’s scientific underpinnings of rheumatic diseases, so that you can better manage your patients. With its new full-color design, scholarly approach to scientific concepts, and sweeping updates, you’ll have a source of knowledge at your disposal to help you face even your toughest challenges. And this Expert Consult Premium Edition, includes a companion web site that lets you access this regularly updated, unparalleled guidance where and when you need it most.

Key Features

* Includes the entire contents of the book online—fully searchable—as well as access to regular updates • an image library for use in electronic presentations • streaming videos that demonstrate the complete musculoskeletal exam, including abnormal findings and the arthroscopic presentation of diseased joints • links to PubMed • self-assessment questions • and more.
* Features state-of-the-art, evidence-based guidance to help you offer your patients the best possible outcomes.
* Provides an increased understanding of mechanisms and molecules involved in the pathogenesis of disease.

New to this Edition

* Includes detailed coverage of the very latest breakthroughs and the newest clinical algorithms to help you gain a thorough understanding of the whys as well as the hows of rheumatic disease management.
* Features new expert authors and new chapters that help you identify key effector mechanisms in autoimmune diseases and inflammation and apply the newest therapeutic modalities.
* Provides fresh, cutting-edge perspectives from the newest addition to the editorial team, Dr. Iain McInnes.
* Offers expanded coverage of imaging modalities so you can diagnose, monitor, and manage rheumatic disease more effectively.
* Incorporates a new full-color design—complete with more than 900 full-color illustrations—for quick access to the answers you need.

# VOLUME I

* PART 1 - STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF BONE, JOINTS AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE
o Chapter 1 - Biology of the Normal Joint
+ CLASSIFICATION OF JOINTS
+ DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY OF THE DIARTHRODIAL JOINT
+ CARTILAGE FORMATION AND ENDOCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION
+ ORGANIZATION AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE MATURE JOINT
+ MATURE ARTICULAR CARTILAGE
+ SYNOVIAL FLUID AND NUTRITION OF JOINT STRUCTURES
+ SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
+ REFERENCES
o Chapter 2 - Synovium
o Chapter 3 - Cartilage and Chondrocytes
o Chapter 4 - Biology, Physiology, and Morphology of Bone
o Chapter 5 - Muscle: Anatomy, Physiology, and Biochemistry
o Chapter 6 - Joint Biomechanics: The Role of Mechanics in Joint Pathology
o Chapter 7 - Proteinases and Matrix Degradation
* PART 2 - CELLS INVOLVED IN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES AND INFLAMMATION
* PART 3 - EFFECTOR MECHANISMS IN AUTOIMMUNITY AND INFLAMMATION
* PART 4 - BROAD ISSUES IN THE APPROCAH TO RHEUMATIC DISEASES
* PART 5 - EVALUATION OF GENERALIZED AND LOCALIZED SYMPTOMS
* PART 6 - DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF REGIONAL MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN
* PART 7 - DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND PROCEDURES IN RHEUMATIC DISEASES
* PART 8 - MODALITIES OF THERAPY IN RHEUMATIC DISEASE

# VOLUME II

* PART 9 - RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
o Chapter 65 - Etiology and Pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis
+ ROLES OF INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY IN ETIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
+ ETIOLOGY OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
+ POSSIBLE CAUSES OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
+ SYNOVIAL PATHOLOGY AND BIOLOGY
+ SYNOVIAL FLUID
+ ROLE OF T CELL CYTOKINES
+ ROLE OF MACROPHAGE AND FIBROBLAST CYTOKINES
+ SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION AND TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS
+ LIFE AND DEATH IN THE RHEUMATOID SYNOVIUM
+ BLOOD VESSELS IN ARTHRITIS
+ CARTILAGE AND BONE DESTRUCTION
+ SUMMARY
+ REFERENCES
o Chapter 66 - Clinical Features of Rheumatoid Arthritis
o Chapter 67 - Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis
o Chapter 68 - Felty's Syndrome
o Chapter 69 - Sjögren's Syndrome
* PART 10 - SPONDYLOARTHROPATHIES
* PART 11 - SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS AND RELATED SYNDROMES
* PART 12 - SCLERODERMA, INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHIES, AND OVERLAP SYNDROMES
* PART 13 - VASCULITIS
* PART 14 - CRYSTAL-INDUCED INFLAMMATION
* PART 15 - CARTILAGE, BONE, AND HERITABLE CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISORDERS
* PART 16 - RHEUMATIC DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD
* PART 17 - INFECTION AND ARTHRITIS
* PART 18 - ARTHRITIS ACCOMPANYING SYSTEMIC DISEASE