Short description:

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.

Long description:

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.

Table of Contents:

Part 1. CLASSICAL SYSTEMIC AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.- 1. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.- 2. Antiphospholipid Syndrome.- 3. Rheumatoid Arthritis.- 4. Diagnostic and Classification Criteria for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.- 5. Adult- Onset Still's Disease.- 6. Systemic Sclerosis.- 7. Sjögren Disease.- 8. Mixed Connective Tissue Disease.- 9. Relapsing polychondritis.- 10. Raynaud?s Phenomenon (RP).- 11. DRUG-INDUCED AUTOIMMUNITY.- 12. Polyautoimmunity and the Multiple Autoimmune Syndromes.- II. SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS.- 13. Giant Cell Arteritis.- 14. Polymyalgia Rheumatica.- 15. Takayasu Arteritis.- 16. Polyarteritis Nodosa.- 17. Microscopic Polyangiitis.- 18. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis.- 19. Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA, Churg-Strauss).- 20. Buerger's Disease.- 21. Behcet?s disease.- 22. Susac Syndrome.- 23. Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane disease (Goodpasture?s Syndrome).- 24. Kawasaki Disease.- 25. Cogan Syndrome.- 26. Immunoglobulin A Vasculitis.- 27. Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis.- 28. Hypocomplementemic Urticarial Vasculitis (ANTI-C1g Vasculitis).- 29. Single Organ Vasculitis.-III. IDIOPATHIC INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHIES.- 30. Polymyositis.- 31. Dermatomyositis.- 32. Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis.- 33. Antisynthetase Syndrome.- 34. Immune-mediated Necrotizing Myopathy.- 35. Granulomatous Myositis.- 36. Eosinophilic Myositis.- 37. Eosinophilic Fasciitis.- IV. OTHER IMMUNE-MEDIATED SYSTEMIC DISEASES.- 38. Sarcoidosis.- 39. Spondyloarthropathies.- 40. Diagnostic and Classification Criteria in Familial Mediterranean Fever.- 41. VEXAS syndrome.- 42.Diagnostic criteria for Fibromyalgia modern concept.- 43. IgG4-related disease.- 44. ASIA Syndrome.- 45. Immune adverse effects induced by checkpoint Inhibitors.- V. ENDOCRINE AND REPRODUCTIVE AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.- 46. Hashimoto?s thyroiditis.- 47. ATROPHIC AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS.- 48. Subacute Thyroiditis.- 49. GRAVES DISEASE.- 50.Postpartum thyroiditis.- 51. Autoimmune Diabetes Mellitus.- 52. Autoimmune Adrenalitis.- 53. Autoimmune Hypophysitis.- 54. Autoimmune Parathyroid Disease.- 55. Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndromes.- 56. Endometriosis.- 57.Autoimmune Ovarian Insufficiency.- 58. Autoimmune Orchitis.- VI. HEPATOBILIARY AND PANCREATIC AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.- 59. Autoimmune Hepatitis.- 60. Diagnosis of Primary Biliary Cholangitis.- 61. Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Diagnosis and Therapy.- 62. Autoimmune Pancreatitis.- VII. GASTROINTESTINAL AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.- 63. Autoimmune Gastritis.- 64. Ulcerative Colitis.- 65. Crohn Disease.- 66. Celiac Disease.- VIII. CUTANEOUS AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.- 67. Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus.- 68. Pemphigus and Bullous Pemphigoid.- 69. Vitiligo.- 70. Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthropathy.- 71. Autoimmune Alopecia.- 72. Hidradenitis suppurativa.- 73. Other Immune-mediated Dermatosis (Liquen Planus, Erythema Multiforme, Toxic Epidermic Necrolysis, Graft versus Host Reaction).- IX. CARDIOVASCULAR AND PULMONARY AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.- 74. Autoimmune Dilated Cardiomyopathy.- 75. Rheumatic Fever.- 76. Accelerated Atherosclerosis in Autoimmune Diseases.- 77. Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias.- 78. Pulmonay Arterial Hypertension.- X. NEUROLOGICAL AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.- 79. Diagnostic criteria for Multiple Sclerosis.- 80. Myasthenia Gravis.- 81. Diagnostic criteria of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes.- 82. Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Other Immune-Mediated Neuropathies.- 83. Transverse Myelitis and Optic Neuromyelitis (Devic Syndrome).- 84. Central Nervous System Vasculitis.- 85. Autoimmune Chorea.- 86. Autoimmune Sensorineural Hearing Loss.- 87. Autoimmune Encephalitis.- 88. Autoimmune Dysautonomia.- 89. Cerebellar Autoimmune Diseases.- 90. Autoimmune Disturbances of Sleeping.- 91. Autoimmune Stiff person Syndrome.- XI. OCULAR AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.- 92. Autoimmune Retinopathies.- 93. Autoimmune Uveitis.- 94. Vogt-Koyanagi Harada Disease.- 95. Orbital Myositis.- XII. RENAL AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.- 97. Membranous Nephropathy.- 98. Minimal change disease.- 99. Focal and Segmental Glomerulosclerosis.- 100. Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis.- 101. Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis.- 102.Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.- XIII. HEMATOLOGIC AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.-103. Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia.- 104. Pernicious Anemia.- 105. Idiopathic Aplastic Anemia.- 106. Acquired Adult Pure Red-cell Aplasia.- 108. Autoimmune Neutropenia.- 109. Immune thrombocytopenia.- 110. Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Other Thrombotic Microangiopathic Hemolytic Anemias.- 111. Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia.- 112. Autoimmune Coagulopathies.