Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease

John Morrow, David A. Isenberg, J. Lee Nelson (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

1999 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-262883-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This work bridges the divide between the clinical characterization and treatment of autoimmune rheumatic diseases and an understanding of laboratory-based research and disease pathogenesis. It describes advances in molecular biological techniques which have brought about changes in understanding.

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This work bridges the divide between the clinical characterization and treatment of autoimmune rheumatic diseases and an understanding of laboratory-based research and disease pathogenesis. This edition describes and explains advances in molecular biological techniques which have brought about major changes in understanding. It also covers the new therapies which have been developed for many autoimmune rheumatic diseases. This book is intended primarily for - trainee rheumatologists, rheumatology staff and rheumatologists; and secondarily - general internists, practitioners and paediatricians, nurse practitioners, scientists engaged in clinical based research in autoimmune rheumatic disease.

Inhalt

1. The immune system - order and disorder; 2. Immunological methodology; 3. Therapeutic manipulation of the immune system; 4. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE); 5. Rheumatoid arthritis; 6. Sjogrens syndrome; 7. Polymyositis; 8. Scleroderma; 9. Primary anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome; 10. Overlap Syndromes; 11. Vasculitis

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.1999
• Überarbeitung: R. L. Watts, etc.
• Zusatzinfo: 200 colour illustrations, bibliography
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 189 x 246 mm
• Gewicht: 873 g
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Rheumatologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• ISBN-10: 0-19-262883-6 / 0192628836
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-262883-1 / 9780192628831
• Zustand: Neuware