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Klappentext This book offers the views of world experts on the causes and treatment of kidney diseases that complicate various rheumatologic diseases. The book includes pathogenesis! clinical features and treatment of diseases providing a readily accessible source of clinical advice for day-to-day rractice. Inhaltsverzeichnis LUPUS NEPHRITIS; 1. Clinical presentation and assessment of disease activity in lupus nephritis; 2. Lupus nephritis: Histopathology; 3. Lupus nephritis: Complement in lupus; 4. Pathogenesis of lupus nephritis; 5. Evidence-based treatment of lupus nephritis; 6. The role of biologicals in the treatment of lupus nephritis; 7. Systemic lupus erythematosus in pregnancy; 8. Renal involvement in the antiphospholipid syndrome; VASCULITIS; 9. Vasculitis classification; 10. The immunopathogenesis of vasculitis; 11. Pathology of vasculitis; 12. Assessment of disease activity and damage in the ANCA associated systemic vasculitides; 13. The clinical presentation and treatment of renal vasculitis; 14. Polyarteritis nodosa; 15. Henoch-Schoenlein purpura; 16. Takayasu arteritis; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; 17. Immunopathogenesis! clinical features and treatment of systemic sclerosis; AMYLOIDOSIS; 18. Immunopathogenesis and diganosis of amyloidosis; 19. Rheumatic disease and amyloid: Clinical features and treatment; 20. Primary amyloidosis; 21. Light-chain and heavy-chain deposition diseases; VIRUS ASSOCIATED DISEASE; 22. Hepatitis C virus-associated mixed cryoglobulinemia; 23. Hepatitis B associated renal diseases; 24. Rheumatic complications of HIV infection; 25. Renal complications of HIV infection; NEPHROTOXICITY OF DRUGS; 26. NSAID's nephrotoxicity; 27. Nephrotoxicity of drugs used in rheumatology: Analgesic nephropathy; 28. Renal toxicity of anti-rheumatic drugs; OTHER; 29. Rheumatologic diseases associated with interstitial nephritis; 30. Management of gout in the patient with renal disease; RHEUMATOLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS; 31. Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis; 32. Rheumatological complications of renal disease and transplantation ...
