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Rheumatic Diseases and the Environment - Lee D. Kaufman, J. Varga

Rheumatic Diseases and the Environment

Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
1998
Chapman and Hall (Verlag)
978-0-412-07911-5 (ISBN)
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Addresses the relationship between environmental and occupational factors, and the musculoskeletal diseases they manifest. This volume includes in-depth discussions on Toxic Oil Syndrome, Silicone-associated rheumatic disease, systemic Lupus, and carpal tunnel syndrome.
'Rheumatic Diseases & the Environment' is a comprehensive, authoritative contributed volume that addresses the relationship between environmental and occupational factors, and the musculoskeletal diseases they manifest. The volume includes in-depth discussions on toxic oil syndrome, silicone-associated rheumatic disease, systemic lupus, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other areas continuing to gain profile in the public's eye. Regulatory, litigation and surveillance issues are also presented. This is the first time that all of the rheumatic conditions with an environmental/occupational origin, and conditions exacerbated by environmental/occupational factors, are compared and addressed as a unique entity.

Part 1 Overview of Epidemiology and Differential Diagnosis
Epidemiology of environmental and occupational connective tissue diseases
Laboratory testing and the diagnosis of selected rheumatic diseases
Part 2 Etiopathogenetic Considerations
Mechanisms of autoimmunity in the development of environmentally-induced connective tissue diseases
Genetics of environmentally associated rheumatic disease
Part 3 Fibrosing Disorders and the Environment
Toxic oil syndrome
Eosinophilia myalgia syndrome
Fibrosing conditions associated with organic solvents and drugs
Part 4 Rheumatic Syndromes Related to Medication and other Potential Environmental Exposures
Environmentally induced systematic lupus erythematosus
Pulmonary hypertension associated with drugs and the environment
Cigarette smoking and other acquired risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis
Drug, alcohol, diet-induced and saturnine gout
Hazards associated with biologic therapies
Silicon-related rheumatic disorders
Environmental factors in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome
The multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome
Part 5 Rheumatic Syndromes and the Workplace
Occupation-associated upper extremity disorders
Occupation-related physical factors and osteoarthritis
Low back pain and the workplace
Part 6 Surveillance, Regulatory and Legal Approaches to Environmental Exposure-Associated Rheumatic Disease
Safety surveillance of food and drugs
Contrasting views of causation in law, science and medicine
Surveillance and monitoring of environmentally associated diseases: some lessons from the eosinophilia myalgia syndrome.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.12.1998
Zusatzinfo 25 b/w illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Medizinische Fachgebiete Innere Medizin Rheumatologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 0-412-07911-9 / 0412079119
ISBN-13 978-0-412-07911-5 / 9780412079115
Zustand Neuware
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