Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology by Hakim, Alan; Clunie, Gavin; Haq, Inam;

Series: Oxford Medical Handbooks;

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Edition number 2
Publisher Oxford University Press
Date of Publication 17 August 2006

ISBN 9780198571353
Binding Book
No. of pages640 pages
Size 185x105x25 mm
Weight 343 g
Language English
Illustrations 38 black and white line diagrams, 8 page black and white and colour plate section

Short description:

This unique, pocket guide emphasizes the clinical evidence-based approach to Rheumatology. Based on the content of the Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology, it provides concise, practical guidelines to the management and diagnosis of patients with acute and chronic musculoskeletal disease. This new edition has been extensively updated with new chapters.

Long description:

The Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology is a unique, pocket guide which emphasizes the clinical evidence-based approach to Rheumatology. Based on the content of the Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology, it provides practical guidelines to the management and diagnosis of patients with acute and chronic musculoskeletal disease. This new edition has been extensively updated and revised throughout to include the latest NICE guidelines and new chapters on rheumatic emergencies, drugs, chronic
widespread pain, shoulder/neck pain and complementary medicine. It includes information on an expanded number of conditions and the new biologic therapies used in the treatment of inflammatory arthritis and connective tissue diseases. There is also greater emphasis on paediatric advice and management of
the adolescent.

The first section serves as a pragmatic guide to making a diagnosis given the characteristic way patients present with symptoms: what signs to look for; how to separate good reliable information from less valid information; how to investigate pragmatically and efficiently and finally how to manage. Useful information on the occurrence of rheumatic disease associated with other diseases is included.

Written with an international audience in mind, incorporating UK, European, and US disease criteria where possible, the second section gives a run down of the main conditions seen by Rheumatologists. It covers soft-tissue rheumatology, backpain, degenerative diseases and all the more common and rare autoimmune diseases.

Taking an evidence-based approach, this handbook emphasizes the clinical approach to rheumatic disease and is an essential guide for anyone who deals with patients with musculoskeletal disease.

For those whose orthopaedic shelves are well-weighted, there will be probably still a gap for this most valuable source of all those conditions which are not to be found in orthopaedic texts, but which present in predominant numbers to every orthopaedic clinic...here is a book shorn of obscure phrases, giving clear descriptions of every condition causing pain in limbs, the physical signs required to make the diagnosis and a sceptical analysis of each as an entry...essential reading
for everyone in surgical orthopaedics.

Part I: The presentation of rheumatic disease
Evaluating musculoskeletal pain
Regional musculoskeletal conditions: making a working diagnosis
Patterns of disease presentation: making a working diagnosis
The spectrum of presentation of rheumatic disease
Part 2: The clinical features and management of rheumatic diseases
Rheumatoid arthritis
Osteoarthritis (OA)
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)
The Spondylarthropathies
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
The antiphospholipid (antibody) syndrome
Sjogren's syndrome
Systemic sclerosis and related disorders
Polymyositis (PM) and Dermatomyositis (DM)
Primary vasculitides
The crystal arthropathies
Metabolic bone diseasesand disorders of collagen
Infection and inflammatory rheumatic disease
Miscellaneous conditions
Common upper limb musculoskeletal lesions
Back pain
Rheumatological emergencies
Complementary medicine in rheumatology
Appendix I: Useful contacts