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Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology /

Petty, Ross E.

Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology / Ross E. Petty, Ronald M. Laxer, Carol B. Lindsley, Lucy R, Wedderburn, Elizabeth Mellins, Robert Fuhlbrigge. - 8th Edition - Philadelphia; Elsevier, c2021 - xiii,748p.: col ill.; 28cm.

Includes Bibliographical references and Index

Structure and function
Genetics and pediatric rheumatic diseases
Mechanistic investigation of pediatric rheumatic diseases
Inflammation and its mediators
Adaptive immunity and autoimmunity
Understanding clinical investigations
Clinical outcome measures in pediatric rheumatic diseases
Pain and its assessment
Imaging in pediatric rheumatic diseases
Laboratory investigations
Principles in the management of patients with rheumatic disease
Global issues in pediatric rheumatology
Therapeutics : nonbiologics
Therapeutics : biologics and small molecules
Nonmedical therapies in pediatric rheumatic diseases
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis : classification and basic concepts
Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Enthesitis-related arthritis
Psoriatic juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Uveitis in juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Systemic lupus erythematosus, mixed connective tissue disease, and undifferentiated connective tissue disease
Antiphospholipid syndrome
Neonatal lupus erythematosus
Juvenile dermatomyositis and other inflammatory muscle diseases
Juvenile systemic sclerosis
Localized scleroderma and eosinophilic fasciitis
Sjögren syndrome and immunoglobulin-G disease
Raynaud phenomenon and vasomotor syndromes
Inflammatory central nervous system disorders
Vasculitis and its classification
Immune complex small-vessel vasculitis : IGA vasculitis (Henoch-Schönlein) and hypersensitivity vasculitis
Polyarteritis nodosa
Kawasaki disease
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody associated vasculitis
Takayasu arteritis and other vasculitides
Behçet disease
Periodic fever syndromes and other inherited autoinflammatory diseases
Autoinflammatory bone diseases
Pediatric sarcoidosis
Macrophage activation syndrome
Primary immunodeficiencies and rheumatic diseases
Infectious arthritis and osteomyelitis
Lyme disease
Reactive arthritis
Skeletal malignancies and related disorders
The impact of rheumatic diseases and their treatment on bone strength development in childhood
Skeletal dysplasias
Noninflammatory musculoskeletal pain
Musculoskeletal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease
Musculoskeletal manifestations of systemic disease
Pain amplification syndromes
Primary disorders of connective tissue


Offering up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of disease progression, diagnosis, management, and prognosis, Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology is the definitive reference in the field. For physicians caring for children with rheumatic diseases, this revised 8th Edition is an unparalleled resource for the full spectrum of rheumatologic diseases and non-rheumatologic musculoskeletal disorders in children and adolescents. Global leaders in the field provide reliable, evidence-based guidance, highlighted by superb full-color illustrations that facilitate a thorough understanding of the science that underlies rheumatic disease. Offers expanded coverage of autoinflammatory diseases, plus new chapters on Takayasu Arteritis and Other Vasculitides, Mechanistic Investigation of Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases, Genetics and Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases, and Global Issues in Pediatric Rheumatology. Reflects the changes in diagnosis, monitoring, and management that recent advances have made possible. Covers the latest information on small molecule treatment, biologics, biomarkers, epigenetics, biosimilars, and cell-based therapies, helping you choose treatment protocols based on the best scientific evidence available today. Features exhaustive reviews of the complex symptoms, signs, and lab abnormalities that characterize these clinical disorders. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

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Children
Rheumatic Diseases
Rheumatism in children

RJ482.R48 / .P48 2021

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