Rheumatology

Nutritional Influences on Bone Health presents a collection of papers from the 8th International Symposium on Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis, the primary forum for and only regular meeting exclusively devoted to the topic of nutritional influences on bone health.

Knee replacement can be regarded as the inevitable sequel to hip replacements, the child so to speak, of a brilliant father.

Gone are the days when the physician could act as God, the orthopaedic surgeon as the Lord God and the nurses as minister- ing angels.

The importance of osteoporosis in the United Kingdom as a cause of death and disability is now well recognised.

References, to the reader, are like insulin to the diabetic: when needed they are indispensable, but in excess they induce coma.

What medicine lacks in an increasingly specialised world is the medical polymath (or should it be medical bimath?

Blood Supply of Bone: Scientific Aspects provides a comprehensive description of the development and physiology of blood supply to the skeleton.

The most frequently requested investigation in any nuclear medicine department remains the technetium-99m (99mTc)-labelled diphosphonate bone scan.

Calcium plays an enormous and varied role in living systems now widely appreciated by clinicians.

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.

As with any delicate machine, the human body can be profoundly affected by its supply of vital running materials.

The publication of a third edition after only five years confirms the widespread popularity of this book.

Behcet's disease is characterized by mucocutaneous symptoms, which are crucial for diagnosing the condition.

The "e;SFCR Experts Series"e; represent a book series under the aegis of the French Spine Surgery Society (SFCR) and dedicated to the spine surgery.

Rheumatoid Arthritis and Proteus explores the idea that Rheumatoid arthritis is caused by a urinary tract infection as a result of Proteus bacteria.

Sjogren's Syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics provides a thorough, multisystemic overview of the clinical manifestations of Sjogren's Syndrome.

Case Studies in Systemic Sclerosis deals specifically with Systemic Sclerosis in a case study format.

The assessment and management of rheumatic diseases is challenging and many doctors are not confident of their abilities in this area.

When I was a young intern in internal medicine,osteoporosis was defined mainly as a fracture occurring in elderly people.

Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations provides a detailed overview of conditions associated with autoimmune diseases that are considered either life-threatening or requiring complex management.

Rheumatology: Clinical Scenarios is a case-based learning tool for trainees in rheumatology.

Ankylosing Spondylitis in Clinical Practice is a concise, practical guide on the diagnosis and management of this debilitating condition.

Hughes Syndrome: The Antiphospholipid Syndrome, A Guide for Students provides an in-depth analysis into the main effects of Hughes Syndrome.

This concise guide takes a practical approach to adolescent and young adult (AYA) rheumatology, encompassing the needs of any healthcare professional working with young people aged 10-24 years.

This concise guide takes a practical approach to adolescent and young adult (AYA) rheumatology, encompassing the needs of any healthcare professional working with young people aged 10-24 years.

Rheumatologists routinely express a desire for a better understanding of ophthalmology to enhance their care of patients whose rheumatologic diseases manifest with ophthalmic complications.

Rheumatologists routinely express a desire for a better understanding of ophthalmology to enhance their care of patients whose rheumatologic diseases manifest with ophthalmic complications.

This new book explores plant-derived nutraceuticals that can be used as crucial therapeutic tools in the prevention and treatment of arthritis and psoriasis, providing detailed information on the use of plant-derived nutraceuticals, such as microalgae and other marine botanicals, omega polyunsaturated fatty acids, glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate, plant-based gum, vitamins and oils, probiotic supplements, and others in the treatment and management of arthritis and psoriasis.

This text assesses the role of dendritic cells, T and B lymphocytes, epithelial and mast cells, eosinophils, neutrophils, macrophages, and their products in the initiation and progression of airway inflammation, regulation, and repair.

This Rapid Review is a concise, evidence-based guide to the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatological and musculoskeletal disorders.

Divided into five expansive sections, this guide provides an in-depth review of crystal-induced arthritis and related disorders.

Certain diseases may involve organ systems that cross the boundaries of specialties.

Certain diseases may involve organ systems that cross the boundaries of specialties.

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.

Targeted therapies of rheumatic diseases have become a reality and have completely changed patient care as well as patient expectations.

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.

This book chronicles the life and career of Haralampos M.

Originally published in 2007 and now available for the first time in paperback format, Head and Neck Manifestations of Systemic Disease presents critical information on a multitude of maladies that have manifestations in the head and neck.

This volume is a how-to guide on the clinical assessment and investigation of patients presenting with muscle-related symptoms.

A key problem in medicine is that certain diseases may involve organ systems that cross the boundaries of individual specialties.

Interdisciplinary Rheumatology: Rheumatology and Gastroenterology is the first complete textbook to examine the myriad complications of rheumatic syndromes in the gastrointestinal tract.