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Zusatztext This is a most valuable book to have! certainly on the shelves of medical libraries! but also on the shelves of clinicians and researchers who deal with the diseases included here. It leads to precise means of diagnosis and points to current therapeutic measures. Its speculations on etiology are sound and should guide investigations. The arcane and inscrutable become understandable! and all the currently available treatments are amply described... It will be sometime before the journals supersede the contents of this volume. Gene V. Ball, Jane Knight Lowe Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, Barri J. Fessler, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, S. Louis Bridges, Jr., Marguerite Jones Harbert-Gene V. Ball, MD Professor of Medicine; Professor of Microbiology; Director, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA Klappentext This is an indispensible textbook on inflammatory diseases of blood vessels! ideal for general physicians and specialists alike. This third edition is fully revised and updated! providing detailed information on clinical! epidemiological! pathophysiological! and therapeutic aspects of common and rare forms of vasculitis. Zusammenfassung This is an indispensible textbook on inflammatory diseases of blood vessels! ideal for general physicians and specialists alike. This third edition is fully revised and updated! providing detailed information on clinical! epidemiological! pathophysiological! and therapeutic aspects of common and rare forms of vasculitis. PART 1: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS ; 1. Nomenclature and classification of vasculitic syndromes ; 2. Epidemiology of vasculitis ; PART 2: BASIC SCIENCE ; 3. Hypersensitivity ; 4. Biology of endothelial cells ; 5. Complement in vasculitis ; 6. Autoantibodies in vasculitis ; 7. Pathogenesis of vasculitis ; 8. Animal models of vasculitis ; 9. Pathologic features of vasculitis ; PART 3: CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS COMMON TO VASCULITIS ; 10. Cutaneous manifestations of vasculitis ; 11. Ocular manifestations of systemic vasculitis ; 12. Cardiopulmonary manifestations of vasculitis ; 13. Vasculitic neuropathy ; 14. Vasculitic manifestations in the gastrointestinal tract ; 15. Renal manifestations ; 16. Digital ischemia and Raynaud>'s phenomenon ; PART 4: IMAGING AND PERCUTANEOUS INTERVENTIONS ; 17. Angiography and percutaneous intervention ; 18. Cross-sectional imaging in vasculitis ; 19. PET imaging in vasculitis ; PART 5: VASCULITIC DISEASES AND SYNDROMES AND RELATED DISORDERS ; 20. Approach to the diagnosis of vasculitis in adult patients ; 21. Vasculitis in infancy, childhood, and adolescence ; 22. Assessment of disease activity and damage ; 23. Giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica ; 24. Takayasu's arteritis ; 25. Polyarteritis nodosa ; 26. Microscopic polyangiitis ; 27. Cutaneous polyarteritis ; 28. Kawasaki's disease ; 29. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis: pathogenesis ; 30. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis: clinical and immunodiagnostic aspects ; 31. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis: treatment ; 32. Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis ; 33. Vasculitis in primary connective tissue disorder ; 34. Behcet>'s syndrome: pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and treatment ; 35. Juvenile Behcet's syndrome ; 36. Vasculitis of the central nervous system ; 37. Thromboangiitis obliterans ; 38. Cutaneous small-vessel vasculitis ; 39. IgA Vasculitis ; 40. Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis ; 41. Miscellaneous forms of vasculitis ; 42. Experimental therapies for vasculitis ; PART 6: MIMICKERS OF VASCULITIS ; 43. Antiphospholipid syndrome ; 44. Imitators of vasculitis ...
