Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology

* Radically revised and updated now in compact one-volume edition
* New chapters with major emphasis on biological therapies
* Many chapters co-authored by a rheumatolgist and clinical specialist to highten relevance to patient management
* Numerous treatment algorithms for practical, clinical advice
* New European editor giving expanded focus
* Numerous full colour illustrations
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Contents/contributors

* 1.1 Clinical presentations in different age groups
* 1.1.1 Anthony Russell: The adult patient
* 1.1.2 Ross E Petty: The child
* 1.1.3 Janet McDonagh & Russell Viner: Adolescence and transition
* 1.1.4 Evan Calkins: The geriatric age group
* 1.1.5 Peter van Riel: Principles of examination
* 1.1.6 Stanton Newman: Psychological aspects of rheumatic disease
* 1.1.7 Alberto Martini, Mohamed Maghnie & Fabrizio Benedetti: Growth and skeletal maturation
* 1.2 Common clinical problems
* 1.2.1.1 Andrew O Frank: Spinal problems in adults
* 1.2.1.2 Berit Flato, Roger Sorensen & Oystein Forre: Spinal problems in children
* 1.2.2 Regional problems
* 1.2.2.1 Adel G Fam & Simon Carette: The upper limbs in adults
* 1.2.2.2. Robert W Simms: The lower limbs in adults
* 1.2.2.3 Angelo Ravelli: The arm and leg in children
* 1.2.3 I D Griffiths: Extra-articlular features of rheumatic diseases
* 1.3 Views from different perspectives
* 1.3.1 Pregnancy and lactation
* 1.3.1.1 J M W Hazes: Pregnancy
* 1.3.1.1.2 J M W Hazes: Antirheumatic drugs in pregnancy & lactation
* 1.3.2 C R Lovell: The skin and rheumatic disease
* 1.3.3 Iain T Ferguson & Peter Hollingworth: Neurological complications
* 1.3.4 Susan Manzi & Mary Chester Wasko: The cardiovascular system
* 1.3.5 Stephen G Spiro & David A Isenberg: The respiratory system
* 1.3.6 Erkki Eerola, Reijo Peltonen & Timo Mottonen: The gastrointestinal tract
* 1.3.7 Daniel Fishman: Liver, spleen and pancreas
* 1.3.8 Jiri Vencovsky & Peter Broulik: The endocrine system
* 1.3.9 Deborah P M Symmons: Oncology
* 1.3.10 Alexander Kai-Lik So: Haematology
* 1.3.11 Allan I Binder & Frances Dormon: An anaesthetic perpsective
* 1.3.12 Elizabeth M Graham & Alison M Leak: The eye
* 1.3.13 Carolyn P Cacho, Andrew O'Connor & Gary M Kammer: The kidney
* 1.3.14 Sikon M Helfgott & Malcolm P Rogers: Psychiatric issues in rheumatology
* Outcomes and Issues in Delivering Rheumatological Care
* 2.1 Thomas Stoll & Gerold Stucki: Outcome assessment in rheumatology
* 2.2 Richard Haigh: Rehabilitation of adults
* 2.3 Renate Hafner & Marianne Spamer: Rehabilitation of children
* 2.4 David Siegel & John Baum: Rheumatic disease and sexuality
* 2.5 Ann Clarke, John Penrod & Bruno Fautrel: Health cost economics and rheumatology
* Pathophysiology of Musculoskeletal Disease
* 3.1 Patricia Woo & David Glass: Genomics and its relevance to rheumatology
* 3.2 Michael Pope: Molecular abnormalities of collagen and connective tissue
* 3.3 T E Hardingham: Articular cartilage
* 3.4 Roger Smith: Bone in health and disease
* 3.5 David Blake, Paul Mapp & Cliff R Stevens: The physiology of the joint and its disturbance in inflammation
* 3.6 Barry Bresnihan: Synovial pathology
* 3.7 Joan M Round & D A Jones: Skeletal muscle physiology and damage
* 3.8 Anthony Unsworth, Susan Scholes, Andrew Amis & Anthony Bull: Biomechanics of articulations and derangements in disease
* The Process of Inflammation
* 4.1 Kevin Davies & Patricia Woo: Cells, cytokines and chemokines
* 4.2 Dorian O Haskard: Leukocyte trafficking in inflammation
* 4.3 B P Wordsworth & Frances Hall: Specific immune responses
* 4.4 Wim van den Berg: Animal models of arthritis
* 4.5 Modification of Inflammation
* 4.5.1 Kay Brune & Burkhard Hinz: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs - old and new
* 4.5.2 John Kirwan: The place of corticosteroids in the management of rheumatic disease
* 4.5.3 Ferdinand C Breedveld & Edward Keystone: Immunosuppressive and other drugs - monotherapy vs combination therapy
* 4.5.4 Gabriel S Panayi: The future targets
* Investigation of the Rheumatic Diseases
* 5.1 Douglas Thompson & Howard A Bird: Acute phase response
* 5.2 Douglas Thompson & Howard A Bird: Biochemistry
* 5.3 Geoff M Scott: Microbiology and diagnostic serology
* 5.4 Peter Maddison & Pearl Huey: Immunology laboratory tests
* 5.5 Lawrence Houk: Joint fluid
* 5.6 Imaging
* 5.6.1 Peter Renton & P Conaghan: Imaging in adults
* 5.6.2. G H Sebag & T Laor: Imaging in children
* 5.7 Patrick J Gallagher and Anderson: Histopathology
* 5.8 Adam Young: Electrophysiology
* The Scope of Rheumatic Disease
* 6.1 Epidemiology
* 6.1.1 Cyrus Cooper & Karen Walker-Bone: Epidemiology and the rheumatic diseases
* 6.1.2 Patricia A Fraser: Epidemiology of rheumatic diseases in selected non-European populations
* 6.2 Infections
* 6.2.1 Marc L Miller: Pyogenic arthritis in adults
* 6.2.2 Douglas Swanson & Mary Anne Jackson: Pyogenic arthritis in children
* 6.2.3 Emilio Bouza, P Munoz, Girish Desai, Yakub Mulla: Osteomyelitis and associated conditions
* 6.2.4 Gerd-Rudiger Burmeister & Andreas Krause: Lyme disease
* 6.2.5 Stanley J Naides: Viral arthritis
* 6.2.6 Patrick Venables: HIV infection
* 6.2.7 Sanjiv N Amin: Myobacterial diseases
* 6.2.8 Eliseo Pascual: Brucellar arthritis
* 6.2.9 Yusuf I Patel: Parasitic involvement
* 6.2.10 Carol A Kemper & Stanley C Deresinski: Fungal arthritis
* 6.2.11 A D B Webster: Immunodeficiency
* 6.2.12 Allan Gibofsky & John B Zabriskie: Rheumatic fever
* 6.3 Rheumatic arthritis
* 6.3.1 R N Maini & M Feldmann: Immunopathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis
* 6.3.2 Leo van de Putte: Rheumatoid arthritis - the clinical picture
* 6.3.3 Paul Emery: Rheumatoid arthritis - management
* 6.3.4 Alberto Martini: Polyarticular rheumatoid factor positive (seropositive) juvenile idiopathic arthritis
* 6.4 Rheumatic arthritis
* 6.4.1 Eric Veys & Herman Mielants: Spondylarthropathy, undifferentiated spondylarthritis and overlap
* 6.4.2 W Kuis & Tauny Southwood: Spondylarthritis in childhood
* 6.4.3 Andrei Calin: Ankylosing spondylitis
* 6.4.4 Dafna D Gladman: Psoriatic arthritis
* 6.4.5 J S Hill Gaston: Reactive arthritis and enteropathic arthropathy
* 6.5 Arthropathies primarily occurring in childhood
* 6.5.1 David D Sherry, Elizabeth D Mellins, C Sandborg & Vivian E Saper: Pauciarticular-onset juvenile chronic arthritis
* 6.5.2 Rayfel Schneider & Ronal M Laxer: Systemic-onset juvenile chronic arthritis
* 6.5.3 Anne-Marie F Prieur: Rheumatoid factor-negative polyarthritis in children
* 6.6 Systemic lupus erythematosus
* 6.6.1 Michael Ehrenstein & David A Isenberg: Systemic lupus erythematosus in adults - clinical features and aetiopathogenesis
* 6.6.2 David A Isenberg & Anisur Rahman: SLE - management in adults
* 6.6.3 Earl D Silverman & Diane Hebert: Paediatric systemic lupus erythematosus
* 6.6.4 Munther A Khamashta & G R V Hughes: The antiphospholid antibody syndrome
* 6.7 Carol M Black & Christopher P Denton: Scleroderma and related disorders in adults and children
* 6.8 Polymyositis and dermamyositis
* 6.8.1 Ira N Targoff: Polymyositis and dermamyositis in adults
* 6.8.2 Lauren M Pachman: Polymyositis and dermamyositis in children
* 6.9 Arthanasios G Tzioufas, Pierre Youinou, Haralampos & Moutsopoulos: Sjogren's syndrome
* 6.10 Vasculitis
* 6.10.1 David G I Scott & Richard A Watts: Classsification and epidemiology of vasculitis
* 6.10.2 Wolfgang L Gross & Eva Reinhold-Keller: Clinical features of primary ANCA-associated vasculitis
* 6.10.3 David Jayne & Niels Rasmussen: Treatment of primary ANCA-associated vasculitis
* 6.10.4 Richard A Watts & David G I Scott: Secondary vasculitis and vasculitis mimics
* 6.10.5 Elisabeth Nordberg: Large vessel vasculitis/gian cell arteritis
* 6.10.6 B Dasgupta & Shubada Kalke: Polymyaligia rheumatica
* 6.10.7 Miguel A Gonzalez-Gay & Carlos Garcia- Porrua: Other vasculitides including small vessel vasculitis
* 6.10.8 Hasan Yazici: Behcet's syndrome
* 6.10.9 Ozen: Vasculitis in children
* 6.11 Enrique R Soriano & Neil J McHugh: Overlap syndromes in adults and children
* 6.12 Miscellaneous inflammatory conditions
* 6.12.1 P N Hawkins: Amyloidosis
* 6.12.2. Pnina Langevitz, Avi Livneh, Deborah Zemer & Mordechai Pras: Familial Mediterranean fever
* 6.12.3 Michale F McDermott: Periodic fevers
* 6.12.4 Jeffrey P Callen: Panniculitis
* 6.12.5 Jeffrey P Callen: Neurtophilic dermatoses
* 6.12.6 Barry Bresnihan: Sarcoidosis
* 6.12.7 Alexei Grom: Macrophage activation syndrome
* 6.12.8 Anne-Marie F Prieur: The chronic, infantile, neurological, cutaneous and articular syndrome
* 6.12.9 Peter J Maddison: Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis
* 6.12.10 Keng Hong Leong, J P D Reckless & Neil J McHugh: Hyperlipidaemias
* 6.13 Soft Tissue Rheumatism
* 6.13.1 Bijlsma, Hans Jacobs & R Geenan: Fibromyalgia and diffuse pain syndromes - adult onset
* 6.13.2 Michael Shipley: Local pain syndromes - adult onset
* 6.13.3 Kevin Murray: Pain syndromes - childhood onset
* 6.14 Michael Doherty, Adrian Jones & T T Cawston: Osteoarthritis
* 6.15 Ann K Rosenthal: Crystal arthropathies
* 6.16.1 David M Reid: Osteoporosis and osteomalacia
* 6.16.2 S E Papapoulos: Paget's disease of bone
* 6.16.3 Peter J Maddison: Miscellaneous disorders of bone, cartilage and synovium
* 6.16.4 Christine Hall & Patricia Woo: Diseases of bone and cartilage in children
* 6.17 Disorders of the spine
* 6.17.1 Malcolm I V Jayson: Intevertebral disc disease and other mechanical disorders of the back
* 6.17.2 Allan I Binder: Cervical pain syndromes
* 6.18.1 Geoffrey O Littlejohn: Algodystrophy
* 6.18.2 Robert M Bernstein: Rheumatic complications of drugs and toxins
* Surgical Intervention and Sports Medicine
* 7.1 Justn P Cobb: Surgery in adults
* 7.2 Johann Delf Witt: Surgery in children
* 7.3 Allan I Binder: Corticosteroid injection therapy
* 7.4 Mark Harries: Sports medicine
* 7.5 Shirley Emerson & J R Jenner: Sports injuries