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, 5th Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource 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.
SECTION I General Concepts 1. Top 100+ Rheumatology Secrets 2. Classification and Health Impact of the Rheumatic Diseases 3. Anatomy and Physiology of the Musculoskeletal System 4. An Overview of the Immune Response, Inflammation, and Autoimmunity
SECTION II Evaluation of the Patient With Rheumatic Symptoms 5. History and Physical Examination 6. Laboratory Evaluation 7. Arthrocentesis, Synovial Fluid Analysis, and Synovial Biopsy 8. Radiographic and Imaging Modalities 9. Electromyography and Nerve Conduction Studies 10. Approach for Patients With Monoarticular Arthritis Symptoms 11. Approach for Patients With Polyarticular Arthritis Symptoms 12. Approach to the Patient With Neuromuscular Symptoms 13. Perioperative Management of Patients With Rheumatic Diseases
SECTION IV The Vasculitides and Related Disorders 25. Approach for Patients With Suspected Vasculitis 26. Large-Vessel Vasculitis: Giant Cell Arteritis, Takayasu Arteritis, and Aortitis 27. Polyarteritis Nodosa, Thromboangiitis Obliterans, and Primary Central Nervous System Vasculitis 28. Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis 29. Immune Complex-Mediated Small-Vessel Vasculitides 30. Cryoglobulinemia 31. Behcet Syndrome 32. Relapsing Polychondritis
SECTION V Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies 33. Axial Spondyloarthritis 34. Rheumatic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Diseases 35. Reactive Arthritis 36. Arthritis Associated With Psoriasis and Other Skin Diseases
SECTION VI Arthritis Associated With Infectious Agents 37. Bacterial Septic Arthritis, Bursitis, and Osteomyelitis 38. Lyme Disease 39. Mycobacterial and Fungal Joint and Bone Diseases 40. Viral Arthritides 41. HIV-Associated Rheumatic Syndromes 42. Whipple Disease 43. Acute Rheumatic Fever and Poststreptococcal Arthritis
SECTION VII Rheumatic Disorders Associated With Metabolic, Endocrine, and Hematologic Diseases 44. Gout 45. Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease 46. Basic Calcium Phosphate and Other Crystalline Diseases 47. Endocrine-Associated Arthropathies 48. Arthropathies Associated With Hematologic Diseases 49. Malignancy-Associated Rheumatic Disorders
SECTION VIII Bone and Cartilage Disorders 50. Osteoarthritis 51. Metabolic Bone Disease 52. Paget Disease of Bone 53. Osteonecrosis
SECTION IX Hereditary, Congenital, and Inborn Errors of Metabolism Associated With Rheumatic Syndromes 54. Heritable Connective Tissue Diseases 55. Inborn Errors of Metabolism Affecting Connective Tissue 56. Storage and Deposition Diseases 57. Rheumatologic Manifestations of the Primary Immunodeficiency Syndromes 58. Skeletal Dysplasias
SECTION X Nonarticular and Regional Musculoskeletal Disorders 59. Approach for the Patient With Neck and Low Back Pain 60. Fibromyalgia 61. Regional Musculoskeletal Disorders 62. Sports Medicine and Occupational Injuries 63. Entrapment Neuropathies 64. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
SECTION XI Neoplasms and Tumor-like Lesions 65. Benign and Malignant Tumors of Joints and Synovium 66. Common Bony Lesions: Radiographic Features
SECTION XII Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases 67. Approach to the Child With Joint Pain 68. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis 69. Juvenile Systemic Connective Tissue Diseases and Vasculitides 70. Kawasaki Disease
SECTION XIII Miscellaneous Rheumatic Disorders 71. Genetic Muscle Diseases: Metabolic and Other Genetic Muscle Disorders 72. Amyloidosis 73. Raynaud’s Phenomenon 74. Autoimmune Eye and Ear Disorders 75. Rheumatic Syndromes Associated With Sarcoidosis 76. IgG4-Related Disease 77. Rheumatic Disorders in Patients on Dialysis 78. Rheumatic Disease and the Pregnant Patient 79. Autoinflammatory Syndromes 80. Odds and Ends
SECTION XIV Management of the Rheumatic Diseases 81. Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs 82. Glucocorticoids-Systemic and Injectable 83. DMARDs: csDMARDs and tsDMARDs 84. Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs: Biologic Agents 85. Immunosuppressive and Immunoregulatory Agents 86. Hypouricemic Agents and Colchicine 87. Bone Strengthening Agents 88. Rehabilitative Techniques 89. Surgical Treatment and Rheumatic Diseases 90. Disability
SECTION XV Final Secrets 91. Complementary and Alternative Medicine 92. History, the Arts, and Rheumatic Diseases
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