Autoimmune diseases: acute and complex situations

Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations provides a detailed overview of conditions associated with autoimmune diseases that are considered eitherlife-threatening or requiring complex management. These include abdominal pain, arthritis, cutaneous ulcers, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, epilepsy, pancreatitis, stroke and white-matter CNS lesions. Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations addresses the latest clinical and immunological prognostic factors that may help to identify patients at higher risk of developing potentially life-threatening involvement. This book comprehensively helps the reader todiagnose these patients, in whom an early therapeutic approach is essential. Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations is a valuable reference toolfor rheumatologists, internists, immunologists, and all the specialists involved in the multidisciplinary care of patient with rheumatic and systemic autoimmune diseases. An overview of the main complex and acute clinical situations occurring inpatients with Systemic Autoimmune Disease assists the reader to quickly and easily locate the different life-threatening, complex situations in separate chapters for each disease. Descriptions of the latest clinical and immunologicalprognostic factors that may help to identify patients at higher risk of developing potentially life-threatening involvement aids the reader to diagnose these patients, in whom an early therapeutic approach is essential. The inclusionof nearly 100 images and diagnostic/therapeutic algorithms illustrates the text with clinical photographs of the main organs involved, and helps the readerto make diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. The most up-to-date opinions ofthe leading international clinical experts on the management of these difficult situations assists the reader to make decisions in situations for which there is currently an almost-complete lack of information from any source. An exhaustive therapeutic update, specifically focused on new agents and experimental techniques for managing complex situations informs the reader of recent advances in the therapeutic management of severe clinical situations, and suggeststherapeutic guidelines according to a hierarchy of evidence consistent with evidence-based sources. INDICE: Assessment and Management of the Rheumatological Patient on the Critical Care Unit á. Life-threatening Complications of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome. Complex Situations in RheumatoidArthritis. Sjögren’s Syndrome: Beyond Sicca Involvement. Systemic Sclerosis: Severe Involvement of Internal Organs. Vasculitic Emergencies in Patients withLarge-vessel Vasculitides. Life-threatening Presentations of ANCA-related Vasculitis. Severe Polyarteritis Nodosa. Life-threatening Cryoglobulinemia. Behçet Disease: Clinical Presentations Affecting Prognosis and Survival. Myositis: When Weakness Can Kill. Complicated Sarcoidosis: Challenges in Dealing with Severe Manifestations. Complex Situations in Patients with Adult-onset Still’s Disease. Managing Acute and Complex Dermatological Situations. Life-threateningAutoimmune Haematological Disorders. Autoimmune Ear, Nose and Throat Emergencies. Ophthalmological Emergencies in Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases. Emergencies for the Vascular Surgeon. Complicated Pregnancy in Patients with Autoimmune Systemic Diseases. The Complex Management of Viral-related Autoimmune Diseases. The Role of Intravenous Immunoglobulins in the Management of Acute Complex Autoimmune Conditions. Life-threatening Complications of Biological Therapies.

• ISBN: 978-0-85729-357-2
• Editorial: Springer London
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 490
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés