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Scleroderma: Best Approaches to Patient Care, An Issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 49-2 - April 11, 2023
- Editor: Tracy M. Frech
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 6 0 7 9 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 6 0 8 0 - 9
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Contains 15 practice-oriented topics including how treatment approaches should change when there is arthritis, myositis, and/or sicca syndrome; the roles of occupational therapy, physical therapy, wound care, and nutritional support; mental health considerations in patients with scleroderma; the best approaches to vaccination, bone health, and cancer screening; the best ways to teach the next generation of rheumatologists about scleroderma; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews on scleroderma, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Approach to Systemic Sclerosis Patient Assessment: How Does Patient Subsetting Help?
- Key points
- Classification of systemic sclerosis
- Subsets of systemic sclerosis
- Juvenile-onset systemic sclerosis
- Refining systemic sclerosis subsets
- The next iteration of systemic sclerosis subsets
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Multi-Organ System Screening, Care, and Patient Support in Systemic Sclerosis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Scleroderma Skin: How Is Treatment Best Guided by Data and Implemented in Clinical Practice?
- Key points
- Natural disease course of skin involvement and its impact on outcome in systemic sclerosis
- The composite response index in diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis
- Noninvasive, objective methods for assessment of skin severity
- Discussion
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Treatment of Vascular Complications in Systemic Sclerosis: What Is the Best Approach to Diagnosis and Management of Renal Crisis and Digital Ulcers?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Scleroderma renal crisis
- Digital ulcers
- Unmet needs/research agenda
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Interstitial Lung Disease: How Should Therapeutics Be Implemented?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Gastrointestinal Tract Considerations Part I: How Should a Rheumatologist Best Manage Common Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Complaints in Systemic Sclerosis?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinics care points
- Funding
- Gastrointestinal Tract Considerations: Part II: How Should a Rheumatologist Best Manage Common Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Complaints in Systemic Sclerosis?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary and recommendations
- Clinics care points
- Funding statement
- Treatment of Inflammatory Arthritis in Systemic Sclerosis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Pulmonary Hypertension: How to Best Treat the Different Scleroderma Phenotypes?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Health Care Utilization: What Is the Cost of Caring for Scleroderma?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Authors’ contributions
- Disclosure
- Availability of data and materials
- Funding
- Expanding the Treatment Team: What Is the Role for Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Wound Care, and Nutritional Support in Systemic Sclerosis?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Occupational and physical therapy
- Hand and face assessment and intervention in systemic sclerosis
- Wound care assessment in systemic sclerosis
- Nutritional assessment in systemic sclerosis
- Challenges for creating a multidisciplinary team
- Summary
- Funding
- Disclosure
- Clinics care points
- Mental Health Considerations in Chronic Disease: What Is the Best Approach for Supporting a Scleroderma Patient?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Preventative Care in Scleroderma: What Is the Best Approach to Vaccination?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Conflict of interest
- Author contributions
- Funding
- Funding and competing interests
- Contribution
- Clinics care points
- Preventative Care in Scleroderma: What Is the Best Approach to Bone Health and Cancer Screening?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Conflict of interest
- Author contributions
- Funding
- Clinics care points
- Funding and competing interests
- Training the Next Generation of Rheumatologists: What Is the Best Way to Teach Fellows About Scleroderma?
- Key points
- Background
- Subtypes of systemic sclerosis
- Capillaroscopy
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Supplementary data
- The Exciting Future for Scleroderma: What Therapeutic Pathways Are on the Horizon?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathways and mechanisms with central roles in fibroblast activation
- Extracellular ligand-receptor targeting of fibrosis in systemic sclerosis
- Targeting the adaptive immune system
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Patient Experience of Systemic Sclerosis–Related Calcinosis: An International Study Informing Clinical Trials, Practice, and the Development of the Mawdsley Calcinosis Questionnaire
- Key points
- Background
- Methods
- Results (1366)
- Discussion
- Summary
- Sources of support
- Conflicts of interest
- Dedication
- Clinics care points
- Primary Cardiac Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis: Best Approach to Diagnosis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Routine cardiopulmonary screening in systemic sclerosis
- Approach to primary cardiac involvement diagnostics
- Therapeutic considerations requiring primary cardiac involvement characterization
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Funding
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 49-2
- Published: April 11, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323960793
- eBook ISBN: 9780323960809
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