Pediatric Rheumatology in Clinical Practice

ISBN-13: 9783319130989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 294 str.

Ronald M. Laxer; David D. Sherry; Philip J. Hashkes

Opis

This second edition is primarily for trainees and junior pediatric residents in adult rheumatology who will be seeing pediatric patients with rheumatic diseases. The short chapters have clear tables and many clinical photos to demonstrate key features of diseases and allow the reader to be well informed when seeing patients with rheumatic diseases.

O autorze

Professor David D. Sherry, MD

Professor of Pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Prof. Sherry is on the editorial board of the Pediatric Rheumatology for emedicine.com, the Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine as well as the Pediatric Clinics of North America, Pediatric Rheumatology Edition, April 2012 and medical editor for the Rheumatology Sub-board of the American Board of Pediatrics.

Ronald M. Laxer, MDCM, FRCPC

Professor of Paediatrics and Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto. Prof. Laxer is also a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto, and Project Director at the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children.He is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Rheumatology, and a co-editor of the Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology.

Philip J. Hashkes, MD, MSc

Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Hebrew University. Prof. Hashkes is the Head of the Pediatric Rheumatology Unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. He is also on the editorial boards of the Journal of Pediatrics and Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Blurb

In this second edition, the authors have expanded on this specialty by exploring medical advances accumulated in the last decade. They look closely at clinical presentations and how to arrive at a diagnosis, focusing on new treatments for juvenile idiopathic arthritis and advances in the field of autoinflammatory diseases, as well as new information on sarcoidosis, IgG4 disease and tumors involving the musculoskeletal system. Readers will find up-to-date management plans using tables, algorithms and figures to serve as useful visual aid within the chapters.

 

Pediatric Rheumatology in Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition provides accessible information about conditions peculiar to young patients, to assist pediatricians, general practitioners as well as rheumatologists in the diagnosis and management of these diseases.