Clinician’s Manual on Lupus

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hughes, Graham R. V. (Editor), Sangle, Shirish (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tarporley : Springer Healthcare Ltd. : Imprint: Springer Healthcare, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health administration.; Rheumatology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Administration.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

Clinician’s Manual on Lupus is an expert overview of Lupus and related conditions that serves as an educational resource for medical students, physicians and other medical professionals with an interest in rheumatology. The book is an up-to-date introduction to the disease and includes high quality...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Lupus: An introduction
• 2. What is lupus?
• 3. Skin
• 4. Tendons and joints
• 5. Kidney
• 6. The brain
• 7. Heart and blood vessels
• 8. Liver and gastrointestinal tract
• 9. Blood
• 10. Diagnosing lupus
• 11. Treatment
• 12. Sjögren’s syndrome
• 13. Hughes syndrome (the antiphospholipid syndrome)
• 14. Mixed connective tissue disease (and overlap syndromes)
• 15. Vasculitis 16. Lupus-related topics.