Gerontorheumatology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rovenský, Jozef (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Geriatrics.; Rheumatology.; Rehabilitation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.

This book covers all aspects of the specialized field of gerontorheumatology, providing a complete overview of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases and related conditions in the elderly. The emphasis is particularly on pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment, including the latest advanc...

Table of Contents:

• Pathogenesis, clinical symptoms and therapy of rheumatoid arthritis
• Osteoporosis in rheumatoid arthritis in elderly patients
• Biological therapy of rheumatoid arthritis
• Systemic lupus erythematosus
• Sjögren’s syndrome
• Systemic scleroderma
• Vasculitis
• Polymyalgia rheumatic and giant cell arteritis
• Aortal aneurysm as a lethal complication of giant cell arteritis
• Relapsing polychondritis
• RS3PE – a disease or a syndrome?
• Clinical and laboratory features of paraneoplastic rheumatic syndromes
• Osteoarthritis
• Arthropathy in hemochromatosis
• Diabetic Charcot's neurogenic osteoarthropathy
• Changes of musculoskeletal system in metabolic syndrome
• Clinical symptoms in gouty arthritis
• X-ray and ultrasound picture of chondrocalcinosis
• Alkaptonuria and ochronosis
• Metabolic osteopathy in celiac disease manifested in elderly patients
• Celiac disease in elderly patients
• Bone and joint involvement in celiac disease
• Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
• Senile osteoporosis
• Nutrition and osteoporosis
• Neck and shoulder pain
• Vertebrogenic diseases
• Pain
• Pharmacotherapy of rheumatic diseases
• Drug-induced rheumatic syndromes
• Rehabilitation in rheumatic diseases
• Surgical treatment of the consequences of rheumatic diseases
• Paget’s disease of bone
• Involutional osteoporosis: sarcopenia, frailty syndrome and falls
• Systemic enzyme therapy in complex treatment of degenerative rheumatic diseases in the elderly patients.