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The Autoimmune Diseases, Sixth Edition, emphasizes the "3 P’s" of 21st Century medicine: precision, prediction and prevention. Topics cover the modern systems approach to biology that involves large amounts of personalized, ongoing physiologic data ("omics") coupled with advanced methods of analysis, new tests of genetic engineering, such as CRISPR, auto inflammatory diseases, autoimmune responses to tumor immunotherapy, and information on normal immune response and disorders. Each of the major autoimmune disorders is discussed by researchers and clinical investigators experienced in dealing with patients. Chapters emphasize the immunologic basis of the disease as well as the use of immunologic diagnostic methods and treatments.
The book also covers several cross-cutting issues related to the recognition and treatment of autoimmune diseases, including chapters on the measurement of autoantibodies and T cells, the use of biomarkers as early predictors of disease, and new methods of treatment.
Basic and clinical scientists working in immunology, rheumatology and autoimmune diseases
Section 1: Immunologic Basis of Autoimmunity
Section 2: Multisystem Diseases
25. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
26. Systemic Sclerosis, Scleroderma
27. Antiphospholipid Syndrome
28. Sjogren Syndrome
29. Rheumatoid Arthritis
30. Spondyloarthritis and Chronic Idiopathic Arthropathies
31. Myositis
32. Thyroid Disease
33. Type 1 Diabetes
34. Adrenalitis
35. Polyendocrine Syndromes
36. Gastritis and Pernicious Anemia
37. Hypophysitis
38. Hemolytic Anemia
39. Thrombocytopenic Purpura
40. Neutropenia
41. Aplastic Anemia
42. Clotting Disorders
43. Multiple Sclerosis
44. Peripheral Neuropathy
45. Myasthenia Gravis
46. Ocular Disease
47. Inner Ear Disease
48. Celiac Disease
49. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease
50. Chronic Hepatitis
51. Primary Billiary Cirrhosis
52. Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
53. Pancreatitis
54. Bullous Skin Diseases: Pemphigus and Pemphigoid
55. Non-Bullous Skin Diseases: Alopecia, Vitiligo, Psoriasis and Urticaria
56. Kidney Disease: Goodpasture’s Disease, Lupus Nephritis, ANCA-Associated Glomerulonephritis
57. Orchitis and Male Infertility
58. Oophoritis
59. Rheumatic Heart Disease
60. Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy
61. Necrotizing Arteritis and Small Vessel Vasculitis
62. Large and Medium Vessel Vasculitides
63. Autoimmune Disorders of the Lung
64. Paraneoplastic Diseases
65. Antibody-Associated Neurological Diseases
66. Autoinflammatory and other Related Diseases
Section 3: Diagnosis, Prevention, and Therapy
67. Autoantibody Assays, Testing, and Standardization
68. Prediction of Autoimmune Disease
69. Emerging Therapies for Autoimmune Diseases
70. Postlude
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George C. Tsokos, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr Tsokos has served as President of the Clinical Immunology Society, on the boards of directors for the American College of Rheumatology and the Lupus Foundation of America, member/chair of multiple federal study sections, and editor/member of the editorial boards for top scientific journals. He has received several awards, including a MERIT from NIH, the Lee C. Howley Sr. Prize, the Evelyn V. Hess, the Distinguished Basic Investigator Award from the American College of Rheumatology, the Lupus Insight Prize from the Lupus Research Alliance, and the Carol Nachman Prize for Rheumatology. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Rheumatology, a member of American Association of Physicians and Fellow of AAAS.