Rheumatology in Practice

Written by highly respected clinicians in the discipline, this book is essential reading for rheumatologists in practice and training. Its evidence-based approach provides the trainee with the skills and diagnostic tools needed to cope with clinical problems.

Rheumatology in Practice offers chapters which are organised and built around anatomical and regional syndromes, so reinforcing the evidence-based approach. As readers progress through the text they are given more demanding and challenging questions, encouraging them to use their diagnostic skills to identify the main syndromes and the underlying diseases responsible for the disorders in question. The text is lavishly illustrated in full colour, with detailed photos of patient examinations, complemented by radiographs and full colour line illustrations. The text also benefits from the use of summaries using coloured boxing to identify key points in diagnosis and management. Written by two of the most respected clinicians in the discipline, this book will be essential reading for rheumatologists in practice and training.

Uses an evidence-based approach with emphasis on diagnostic skills. This provides the trainee with the skills and diagnostic tools needed to cope with any clinical problem he or she is likely to encounter. Both authors are internationally known and respected giving the book credibility amongst its intended audience and offers opportunities for the book to be adopted at institutions and on reading lists particularly in Europe Use of question and answer format and consistently challenging questions throughout the text, encouraging the reader to learn and reinforce the basic principles of diagnostic skills. Full colour illustrations of the clinical examination and highlighted and boxed key points, making the text more reader friendly, thus encouraging the retention of principles and key points in diagnosis and treatment

Autorentext

Professor Jose Antonio da Silva MD, PhD: Professor of Rheumatology, University of Coimbra, Portugual; Editor of Acta Reumatologica Portuguesa (1998-2002). Prof da Silva is currently a member of the Editorial board of Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology and Clinical Rheumatology and chairman of the EULAR Standing Committee for Education and Training. He is also former president of EULAR.

Professor Anthony D Woolf, BSc, MB BS, FRCP: Consultant Rheumatologist, Rheumatology Unit, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK. Prof Woolf is also President at UEMS Section of Rheumatology and European Board of Rheumatology and a member of the Bone & Joint Decade Education Task Force.

Inhalt
The Importance of Rheumatic Diseases.- Pain, Disease and Suffering an Integrated Perspective.- The Structure and Function of the Musculoskeletal System Sources of Pain.- Diagnostic Strategy the Main Syndromes in Rheumatology.- The Standard Enquiry in Rheumatology.- The General Clinical Examination.- Regional Syndromes Neck pain.- Regional Syndromes The Painful Shoulder.- Regional Syndromes The Elbow And Forearm.- Regional Syndromes the Wrist and Hand.- Regional Syndromes Low Back Pain.- Regional Syndromes The Hip.- Regional Syndromes The Knee.- Regional Syndromes the Foot and Ankle.- Generalized Pain Syndrome Fibromyalgia.- Osteoarthritis.- Inflammatory Arthritides Diagnostic Strategies.- Monoarthritis.- Chronic, Additive, Symmetrical, Peripheral Polyarthritis.- Chronic, Asymmetrical Oligo- Or Polyarthritis.- Chronic Proximal Oligoarthritis.- Arthritis of the Shoulder and Pelvic Girdles Polymyalgia Rheumatica.- Acute Oligo- or Polyarthritis Febrile Arthritis Arthritis with Mucocutaneous Manifestations.- Inflammatory Low Back Pain.- Systemic Syndromes Connective Tissue Diseases Vasculitis Raynaud's Phenomenon.- Osteoporotic Syndrome Osteoporosis.- Bone Syndrome Bone Diseases.- Rheumatic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents.- Treating Rheumatic Diseases.- Drugs Commonly Used in Rheumatic Diseases.