This comprehensive manual covers all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of osteoporosis, offering an upbeat and optimistic assessment of what can be achieved.
This book provides detailed information on the nosology, pathology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment of fibro-inflammatory disorders, rare diseases that often display systemic organ involvement.
Vaskulitis ist eine Entzündung der Blutgefäße und kann sich als rheumatische Beschwerden, als Probleme am Auge oder im HNO-Bereich zeigen sowie als Hautveränderung.
This book offers a concise and updated guide for all readers (physicians and non-physicians) interested in gaining a comprehensive and precise understanding of sarcopenia.
This edition of the companion volumes Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mech- isms and Muscle Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment is essential reading for those interested in clinical approaches to acute and chronic pain conditions involving muscle tissues and in the mechanisms underlying these conditions.
This brand new textbook of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an important addition to the Oxford Textbooks in Rheumatology series, and provides a comprehensive overview of both the scientific and clinical aspects of the disease.
The seventh symposium on "e;Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis"e; continues to be the primary forum for scientists to focus on the impact of nutrition on bone health in general.
While an emphasis on the new is vital to any science, the relevance or importance of new discoveries cannot truly be appreciated without a strong sense of the framework of a discipline, and of the ideas that helped to shape it.
hirty-four years after the first description of the myofibroblast, the number of publications concerning this cell is very impressive and Tcontinuously expanding, and the work on the myofibroblast involves many laboratories throughout the world.
The so-called 'connective tissue disorders' hold a particular fascination to both the rheumatologist and the dermatologist, and the diagnosis of, sometimes subtle, changes in the skin can often be difficult.
Adolescent Rheumatology is the first single-source text that focuses on how adolescent-specific aspects impact rheumatic conditions and cross references disease-specific information from general rheumatology textbooks.
A wide-ranging account of the immunological mechanisms that underlie many rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and SLE, and the development of effective and rational new therapies.
Het Reumatologie & Orthopedie Formularium biedt een praktische leidraad waarin de meest recente ontwikkelingen worden samengevat op het gebied van veelvoorkomende aandoeningen van het bewegingsapparaat binnen de reumatologie en de orthopedie.
Die Rheumaorthopädie hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten sowohl im deutschsprachigen Raum als auch im europäischen Ausland als eigenständige Spezialdisziplin innerhalb der Orthopädie etabliert und ist eigenständiger Schwerpunkt innerhalb der Weiterbildung "Facharzt für Orthopädie und Traumatologie".
The accurate diagnosis of tumors and tumor-like lesions of bones and soft tissues is often challenging, owing in part to the large number of such lesions and their shared clinical manifestations.
Progress in Basic and Clinical Immunology is a result of the 14th European Immunology Meeting - EFIS 2000, held in Poznan, Poland, on 23-27 September 2000.
Obwohl das Stütz- und Bewegungsorgan das größte Organsystem des menschlichen Körpers ist, das von zahlreichen Erkrankungen betroffen werden kann, wird ihm bei der Ausbildung des Arztes nur relativ wenig Beachtung geschenkt.
This volume of the series Rare Diseases of the Immune System presents detailed state of the art knowledge on the cellular primary immunodeficiencies; it includes extensive coverage of both basic science discoveries and the latest clinical advances in the field.
Rheumatic inflammatory diseases represent a steadily increasing group of disorders that have considerable social impact through affected patients' worsening quality of life and require engagement in the health field.
Dieses Referenzwerk bietet dem Allgemeinpädiater, dem angehenden Facharzt und dem (Kinder-)Rheumatologen umfassende Antworten auf alle Fragen der Entstehung, Diagnostik und Therapie von rheumatologischen Erkrankungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen.
Arachidonic acid (AA) and other 20 or 22-carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are precursors of lipid mediators of inflammation known as eicosanoids.
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a rare group of autoimmune diseases, negatively affecting the lives of an estimated 250,000 people worldwide.
This book incorporates the experience of numerous experts who explore contemporary opinion of how best to rationalise and optimise the interfaces at total hip replacement to provide the most favourable and durable results.