Sjögren’s Syndrome Diagnosis and Therapeutics /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ramos-Casals, Manuel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Stone, John H. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Moutsopoulos, Haralampos M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Springer London, 2012.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Internal medicine.; Rheumatology.; Ophthalmology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

 Sjögren’s Syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics provides a thorough, multisystemic overview of the clinical manifestations of Sjögren’s Syndrome. It contains chapters pertinent across the range of medical specialties that may encounter Sjögren’s Syndrome cases. Chapters are specialty-specific, for easy reference by the relevant medical specialist. In addition to being a diagnostic guide, Sjögren’s Syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics  includes a section on prognosis and outcomes of Sjögren’s Syndrome patients and provides an exhaustive therapeutic update, focused on new agents and experimental techniques. The inclusion of diagnostic/therapeutic algorithms illustrates the text with clinical photographs of the main organs involved and helps the reader to make guided diagnostic and therapeutic decisions through decision-based algorithms. 

 Epidemiology -- Genetics and Proteomics -- Immunopathogenesis -- Viruses -- Etiopathogenic role of B-cells -- Oral involvement -- Ocular involvement -- Ear, nose and throat involvement -- Fatigue, fibromyalgia and other general symptoms -- Musculoskeletal involvement -- Non-vasculitic cutaneous involvement -- Vasculitis -- Cardiovascular involvement -- Pulmonary involvement -- Raynaud phenomenon -- Gastrointestinal involvement -- Autoimmune liver involvement -- Pancreatic involvement -- Nephro-urological involvement -- Central nervous system involvement -- Peripheral neuropathy -- Autonomic neuropathy -- Endocrine involvement -- Gynecological and obstetrical complications -- Laboratory abnormalities -- Diagnostic procedures (I) -- Diagnostic procedures (II) -- Immunological tests -- Classification criteria -- Measurement of chronicity and activity -- Measurement of quality of life -- Association with other autoimmune and rheumatic diseases -- Cancer -- Prognostic factors and survival -- SS in primary care.-Treatment of sicca features -- Treatment of B-cell lymphoma -- Classic immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory drugs -- New immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory drugs -- B-cell targeted therapies -- Other biological therapies -- Experimental therapies.