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Ronald Asherson, Killarney, Johannesburg, South Africa
Doruk Erkan
Steven Levine
Included in series
Handbook of Systematic Autoimmune Diseases, 3
Description
Systemic autoimmune diseases can affect both the central and peripheral nervous systems in a myriad of ways and through a heterogeneous
number of mechanisms leading to many different clinical manifestations. As a result, neurological complications of these disorders can
result in significant morbidity and mortality. Advances in the diagnosis, laboratory investigations, and management of these conditions
has placed an increasing burden on the practicing clinician to correctly assess and treat these patients.
This volume of the Handbook
of the Systemic Autoimmune Diseases will help the clinician and researcher better understand the current concepts of nervous system involvement
from systemic autoimmune disorders, recognize current approaches to diagnosis and treatment, current controversies, and areas that need
significant research efforts. It is believed that providing this approach in a single volume will facilitate its use as a frequent resource
for all those caring for or investigating these patients and their diseases.
Each chapter follows a consistent outline to provide the
reader with important and useful information in an easy-to-navigate manner and is also liberally referenced to provide more primary source
material for further consideration. The standardized approach to each chapter will allow the reader to be able to compare and contrast
more efficiently the neurological complications of the autoimmune diseases discussed.
Audience
Rheumatologists, neurologists, immunologists.
Contents
Preface.
Volume Editors.
Series Editor.
List of Contributors.
Part I. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
Neuropsychiatric lupus:
pathogenesis and clinical features (R. Cavasos-Garcia, R.L. Brey).
Cognitive evaluation and dysfunction (S.D. Denburg, J.A. Denburg).
Anatomic and functional imaging studies (W.L. Sibbit Jr., W.M. Brooks).
Part II. Antiphospholipid Syndrome.
Antiphospholipid
syndrome: neurological aspects (S.R. Levine, D. Erkan).
Part III. Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Spine involvement (A. Zaider, S.A. Paget).
Peripheral and central nervous system involvement (J. Chapman).
Part IV. Inflammatory Muscle Diseases.
Inflammatory muscle diseases:
pathogenesis and clinical features (S. Sultan, D.A. Isenberg).
Part V. Vasculitides.
ANCA-associated vasculitides and polyarteritis
nodosa (C. Pagnoux, L.P. Guillevin).
Temporal (giant cell) arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica (G.W. Smetana, R.H. Shmerling).
Takayasu
arteritis (K. Maksimowicz-McKinnon, G. Hoffman).
Behcet's syndrome (A. Siva, H. Yazici).
Miscellaneous vasculitides (R. Tsabari et
al.).
Part VI. Other Conditions with Neurologic Involvement.
Neurosarcoidosis (B.J. Stern).
Sjogren's syndrome (C.P. Mavragani,
F.C. Soliotis, H.M. Moutsopoulos).
Systemic sclerosis (C.P. Denton, V.H. Ong).
Paraneoplastic disorders (R. Marmur, R.B. Darnell).
Index.
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 296 pages, publication date: NOV-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51651-0
ISBN-10: 0-444-51651-4
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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