
Rheumatology Secrets
- 4th Edition - October 13, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Sterling G. West
- Editor: Jason Kolfenbach
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 4 1 8 6 - 9
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Request a sales quoteFor more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Rheumatology Secrets, 4th Edition, features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style – making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.
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Medical students (MS: 88,304 total enrollment as of 2016-17 per AAMC) and residents; physician assistant students, nurse practitioner students
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- I. General Concepts
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Classification and Health Impact of the Rheumatic Diseases
- Chapter 2. Top 100+ Rheumatology Secrets
- Chapter 3. Anatomy and Physiology of the Musculoskeletal System
- Collagen
- Elastin and Adhesins
- Proteoglycans
- Musculoskeletal System
- Chapter 4. Overview of the Immune Response, Inflammation, and Autoimmunity
- Innate Immunity
- Adaptive Immunity
- Odds and Ends
- Autoimmunity
- II. Evaluation of the Patient with Rheumatic Symptoms
- Introduction
- Chapter 5. History and Physical Examination
- Chapter 6. Laboratory Evaluation
- Chapter 7. Arthrocentesis and Synovial Fluid Analysis
- Chapter 8. Radiographic and Imaging Modalities
- Chapter 9. Synovial Biopsies
- Chapter 10. Electromyography and Nerve Conduction Studies
- Chapter 11. Approach for Patients with Monoarticular Arthritis Symptoms
- Chapter 12. Approach for Patients with Polyarticular Arthritis Symptoms
- Chapter 13. Approach to the Patient with Neuromuscular Symptoms
- Chapter 14. Perioperative Management of Patients with Rheumatic Diseases
- III. Systemic Connective Tissue Diseases
- Introduction
- Chapter 15. Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Chapter 16. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Chapter 17. Drug-induced Lupus Erythematosus
- Chapter 18. Systemic Sclerosis
- Chapter 19. Scleroderma Mimics
- Morphea (Localized Scleroderma)
- Scleredema and Scleromyxedema
- Eosinophilic Fasciitis (Diffuse Fasciitis with Eosinophilia)
- Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis
- Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease
- Chapter 20. Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
- Chapter 21. Mixed Connective Tissue Disease, Overlap Syndromes, and Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
- Overlap Syndromes
- Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease
- Chapter 22. Sjögren’s Syndrome
- Chapter 23. Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
- Chapter 24. Adult-Onset Still’s Disease
- Chapter 25. Polymyalgia Rheumatica
- IV. The Vasculitides and Related Disorders
- Introduction
- Chapter 26. Approach for Patients with Suspected Vasculitis
- Chapter 27. Large-Vessel Vasculitis: Giant Cell Arteritis, Takayasu Arteritis, and Aortitis
- Giant Cell Arteritis
- Takayasu Arteritis
- Isolated Aortitis and Chronic Periaortitis
- Chapter 28. Medium-Vessel Vasculitides: Polyarteritis Nodosa, Thromboangiitis Obliterans, and Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System
- Polyarteritis Nodosa
- Thromboangiitis Obliterans
- Primary Angiitis/Vasculitis of the Central Nervous Sytsem
- Chapter 29. Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis
- Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
- Microscopic Polyangiitis
- Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Formerly Churg–Strauss Syndrome)
- Drug-Induced ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
- ANCA and Other Diseases
- Chapter 30. Immune Complex-Mediated Small-Vessel Vasculitides
- Iga Vasculitis (Henoch–Schönlein Purpura)
- Urticarial Vasculitis
- Erythema Elevatum Diutinum
- Chapter 31. Cryoglobulinemia
- Chapter 32. Behçet’s Disease and Cogan’s Syndrome
- Behçet’s Disease
- Cogan’s Syndrome
- Chapter 33. Relapsing Polychondritis
- V. Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies
- Introduction
- Chapter 34. Axial Spondyloarthritis
- Chapter 35. Rheumatic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Diseases
- Enteropathic Arthritides
- Rheumatic Syndromes and Pancreatic Disease
- Rheumatic Syndromes and Hepatobiliary Disease
- Chapter 36. Reactive Arthritis
- Chapter 37. Arthritis Associated with Psoriasis and Other Skin Diseases
- VI. Arthritis Associated with Infectious Agents
- Introduction
- Chapter 38. Bacterial Septic Arthritis, Bursitis, and Osteomyelitis
- Chapter 39. Lyme Disease
- Difficult Clinical Situations
- Chapter 40. Mycobacterial and Fungal Joint and Bone Diseases
- Chapter 41. Viral Arthritides
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Parvovirus
- Chikungunya and Other Alphaviruses
- Other Viruses
- Chapter 42. HIV-Associated Rheumatic Syndromes
- Chapter 43. Whipple’s Disease
- Chapter 44. Acute Rheumatic Fever and Poststreptococcal Arthritis
- VII. Rheumatic Disorders Associated with Metabolic, Endocrine, and Hematologic Diseases
- Introduction
- Chapter 45. Gout
- Chapter 46. Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease
- Chapter 47. Basic Calcium Phosphate and Other Crystalline Diseases
- Chapter 48. Endocrine-Associated Arthropathies
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Thyroid Disease
- Parathyroid Disease
- Acromegaly
- Cushing’s Syndrome
- Familial Hyperlipoproteinemia
- Chapter 49. Arthropathies Associated with Hematologic Diseases
- Chapter 50. Malignancy-Associated Rheumatic Disorders
- VIII. Bone and Cartilage Disorders
- Introduction
- Chapter 51. Osteoarthritis
- Chapter 52. Metabolic Bone Disease
- Chapter 53. Paget’s Disease of Bone
- Chapter 54. Osteonecrosis
- IX. Hereditary, Congenital, and Inborn Errors of Metabolism Associated with Rheumatic Syndromes
- Introduction
- Chapter 55. Heritable Connective Tissue Diseases
- Tensile Hereditary Connective Tissue Diseases
- Compressive Hereditary Connective Tissue Diseases
- Barrier Hereditary Connective Tissue Disease
- Chapter 56. Inborn Errors of Metabolism Affecting Connective Tissue
- Chapter 57. Storage and Deposition Diseases
- Chapter 58. Rheumatologic Manifestations of the Primary Immunodeficiency Syndromes
- Chapter 59. Bone and Joint Dysplasias
- X. Nonarticular and Regional Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Introduction
- Chapter 60. Approach for the Patient with Neck and Low Back Pain
- Chapter 61. Fibromyalgia
- Clinical Features
- Pathophysiology
- Approach to Treatment
- Chapter 62. Regional Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Chapter 63. Sports Medicine and Occupational Injuries
- Chapter 64. Entrapment Neuropathies
- Chapter 65. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- XI. Neoplasms and Tumorlike Lesions
- Introduction
- Chapter 66. Benign and Malignant Tumors of Joints and Synovium
- Chapter 67. Common Bony Lesions: Radiographic Features
- XII. Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases
- Introduction
- Chapter 68. Approach to the Child with Joint Pain
- Chapter 69. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
- Chapter 70. Juvenile Systemic Connective Tissue Diseases
- Chapter 71. Kawasaki Disease
- XIII. Miscellaneous Rheumatic Disorders
- Introduction
- Chapter 72. Metabolic and Other Genetic Myopathies
- Chapter 73. Amyloidosis
- Chapter 74. Raynaud’s Phenomenon
- Chapter 75. Autoimmune Eye and Ear Disorders
- Episcleritis/Scleritis
- Uveitis
- Retinal Vasculitis
- Orbital Inflammatory Disease
- Immune-Mediated Inner ear Disease
- Cogan’s Syndrome
- Chapter 76. Rheumatic Syndromes Associated with Sarcoidosis
- Chapter 77. Rheumatic Disorders in Patients on Dialysis
- Chapter 78. Rheumatic Disease and the Pregnant Patient
- Chapter 79. Periodic Fever and Autoinflammatory Syndromes
- Specific Autoinflammatory Syndromes
- Chapter 80. Odds and Ends
- Periodic Arthritis Syndromes
- Foreign Body Synovitis
- Rare Arthritic Syndromes
- Rare Systemic Diseases
- Abnormal Calcifications
- Skin Manifestations of Disease
- Other Diseases With Rheumatic Manifestations
- Medication-Induced Rheumatic Manifestations and Asia Syndrome
- XIV. Management of the Rheumatic Diseases
- Introduction
- Chapter 81. Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs
- Chapter 82. Glucocorticoids—Systemic and Injectable
- Chapter 83. Systemic Antirheumatic Drugs
- Chapter 84. Immunosuppressive, Target-Specific, and Immunoregulatory Agents
- Immunosuppressive Agents
- Target-Specific Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs
- Other Immunoregulatory Therapies
- Chapter 85. Biologic Agents
- Chapter 86. Hypouricemic Agents and Colchicine
- Chapter 87. Bone-Strengthening Agents
- Chapter 88. Rehabilitative Techniques
- Exercise and Rest
- Physical Modalities
- Orthoses, Joint Protection, and Assistive Devices
- Specific Disease Rehabilitation
- Chapter 89. Surgical Treatment and Rheumatic Diseases
- Chapter 90. Disability
- XV. Final Secrets
- Introduction
- Chapter 91. Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Chapter 92. History, the Arts, and Rheumatic Diseases
- XVI. Board-style Questions
- Question Bank
- Index
- Edition: 4
- Published: October 13, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 784
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323641869
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Jason Kolfenbach
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USASW
Sterling G. West
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA