Systemic lupus erythematosus: an issue of rheumatic disease clinics

This issue brings the rheumatologist on the current thinking on treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, with an eye to the future. Topics covered include B cell biology and related therapies; glutamate receptor biology and its clinical significance in neuropsychiatric SLE; platelet C4d and vascular complications; biomarkers in lupus nephritis; endothelial function and its implications for cardiovascular and renal disease in SLE; changing worldwide epidemiologyof SLE and its relationship to environmental, ethnic, and other sociodemographic factors; work loss, disability, quality of life, and compliance in SLE; pediatric lupus; metabolic syndrome and related endocrine abnormalities; the significance of interferon and the consequences of anti-interferon in SLE; and cutaneous lupus and the CLASI instrument.

• ISBN: 978-1-4377-1869-0
• Editorial: Saunders
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 09/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés