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For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Rheumatology Secrets, 4th Edition, features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style - making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

• The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time - succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective
• Fully revised and updated throughout, including protocols and guidelines that are continuously evolving and that increasingly dictate best practices
• Practical coverage of basic immunology and pathophysiology, important disease manifestations, and clinical management issues related to common and uncommon rheumatic disorders
• Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams
• Features bulleted lists, mnemonics, practical tips from leaders in the field - all providing a concise overview of important board-relevant content
• Keeps you up to date with new techniques and technologies, as well as changing treatment options and drug information
• Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime
• Helps ensure mastery of the material with 100 board-style questions available online that provide effective review and quick practice for your exams

• 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

  Inhalt

  I. General Concepts

  1. Classification and Health Impact of the Rheumatic Diseases
  2. Top 100+ Rheumatology Secrets
  3. Anatomy and Physiology of the Musculoskeletal System
  4. Overview of the Immune Response, Inflammation, and Autoimmunity

  II. Evaluation of the Patient with Rheumatic Systems

  5. History and Physical Examination
  6. Laboratory Evaluation
  7. Arthrocentesis and Synovial Fluid Analysis
  8. Radiographic and Imaging Modalities
  9. Synovial Biopsies
  10. Electromyography and Nerve Conduction Studies
  11. Approach for Patients with Monoarticular Arthritis Symptoms
  12. Approach for Patients with Polyarticular Arthritis Symptoms
  13. Approach to the Patient with Neuromuscular Symptoms
  14. Perioperative Management of Patients with Rheumatic Diseases

  III. Systematic Connective Tissue Diseases

  15. Rheumatoid Arthritis
  16. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
  17. Drug-Induced Lupus Erythematosus
  18. Systemic Sclerosis
  19. Scleroderma Mimics
  20. Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
  21. Mixed Connective Tissue Disease, Overlap Syndromes, and Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease
  22. Sjögren’s Syndrome
  23. Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
  24. Adult-Onset Still’s Disease
  25. Polymyalgia Rheumatica

  IV. The Vasculitides and Related Disorders

  26. Approach for Patients with Suspected Vasculitis
  27. Large-Vessel Vasculitis: Giant Cell Arteritis, Takayasu Arteries, and Aortitis
  28. Medium-Vessel Vasculitides: Polyarteritis Nodosa, Thromboangiitis Obliterans, and Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System
  29. Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis
  30. Immune-Complex-Mediated Small-Vessel Vasculitides
  31. Cryoglobulinemia
  32. Behçet’s Disease and Cogan’s Syndrome
  33. Relapsing Polychondritis

  V. Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies

  34. Ankylosing Spondylitis
  35. Rheumatic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Diseases
  36. Reactive Arthritis
  37. Arthritis Associated with Psoriasis and Other Skin Diseases

  VI. Arthritis Associated with Infectious Agents

  38. Bacterial Septic Arthritis, Bursitis, and Osteomyelitis
  39. Lyme Disease
  40. Mycobacterial and Fungal Joint and Bone Diseases
  41. Viral Arthritides
  42. HIV-Associated Rheumatic Syndromes
  43. Whipple’s Disease
  44. Acute Rheumatic Fever and Poststreptococcal Arthritis

  VII. Rheumatic Disorders Associated with Metabolic, Endocrine, and Hematologic Diseases

  45. Gout
  46. Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease
  47. Basic Calcium Phosphate and Other Crystalline Disease
  48. Endocrine-Associated Arthropathies
  49. Arthropathies Associated with Hematologic Diseases
  50. Malignancy-Associated Rheumatic Disorders

  VIII. Bone and Cartilage Disorders

  51. Osteoarthritis
  52. Metabolic Bone Disease
  53. Paget’s Disease of Bone
  54. Osteonecrosis

  IX. Hereditary, Congenital, and Inborn Errors of Metabolism Associated with Rheumatic Syndromes

  55. Heritable Connective Tissue Disease
  56. Inborn Errors of Metabolism Affecting Connective Tissue
  57. Storage and Deposition Diseases
  58. Rheumatologic Manifestations of the Primary Immunodeficiency Syndromes
  59. Bone and Joint Dysplasias

  X. Nonarticular and Regional Musculoskeletal Disorders

  60. Approach for the Patient with Neck and Low Back Pain
  61. Fibromyalgia
  62. Regional Musculoskeletal Disorders
  63. Sports Medicine and Occupational Injuries
  64. Entrapment Neuropathies
  65. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

  XI. Neoplasms and Tumor-Like Lesions

  66. Benign and Malignant Tumors of Joints and Synovium
  67. Common Bony Lesions: Radiographic Features

  XII. Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases

  68. Approach to the Child with Joint Pain
  69. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
  70. Juvenile Systemic Connective Tissue Diseases
  71. Kawasaki Disease

  XIII. Miscellaneous Rheumatic Disorders

  72. Metabolic and Other Genetic Myopathies
  73. Amyloidosis
  74. Raynaud’s Phenomenon
  75. Autoimmune Eye and Ear Disorders
  76. Rheumatic Syndromes Associated with Sarcoidosis
  77. Rheumatic Disorders in Patients on Dialysis
  78. Rheumatic Disease and the Pregnant Patient
  79. Familial Autoinflammatory Syndromes
  80. Odds and Ends

  XIV Management of the Rheumatic Diseases

  81. Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs
  82. Glucocorticoids-Systemic and Injectable
  83. Systemic Antirheumatic Drugs
  84. Immunosuppressive, Target-Specific, and Immunoregulatory Agents
  85. Biologic Agents
  86. Hypouricemic Agents and Colchicine
  87. Bone-Strengthening Agents
  88. Rehabilitative Techniques
  89. Surgical Treatment and Rheumatic Diseases
  90. Disability

  XV. Final Secrets

  91. Complementary and Alternative Medicine
  92. History, Arts, and Rheumatic Diseases