English | 2024 | Original PDF | 52 MB | 721 Pages
Yehuda Shoenfeld, Ricard Cervera, Gerard Espinosa, M. Eric Gershwin, 3031698940, 3031698959, 9783031698941, 9783031698958, 978-3031698941, 978-3031698958
This book contains the essential
information required by physicians and bench scientists to understand
the definition of a given autoimmune disease and its diagnostic
criteria and treatment. Autoimmune diseases are a family of more than
one hundred chronic, and often disabling, illnesses that develop when
underlying defects in the immune system lead the body to attack its own
organs, tissues, and cells. In Autoimmune Disease Diagnosis: Systemic
and Organ-specific Diseases, the editors have gathered a critical
review by renowned experts of more than 120 autoimmune diseases. A
contemporary overview of these conditions with special emphasis on
diagnosis is presented.
This edition
of Autoimmune Disease Diagnosis is divided into two parts, the first
covering systemic autoimmune diseases, and the second covering
organ-specific autoimmune diseases. They cover all the newly approved
classification criteria, such as those for systemic lupus
erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome, several systemic vasculitis,
etc. This edition also reviews newly described systemic autoimmune
conditions: immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy, VEXAS, immunoglobulin
G4-associated autoimmune disease, autoimmune/autoinflammatory syndrome
induced by adjuvants (ASIA), and autoimmune manifestations induced by
immune-therapies. Several organ-specific diseases have been added,
including autoimmune alopecia and other immune-mediated dermatosis,
autoimmune encephalitis, and autoimmune dysautonomia, among others.
This is an essential guide to the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases for
internists, rheumatologists, clinical immunologists, primary care
physicians, and bench scientists.
