This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the Antiphospholipid syndrome. One of the most important advances in rheumatology and connective tissue diseases of the last decade. It provides an explanation for many previously undefined conditions with no clear pathogenesis encompassing all subspeculations in internal medicine as well as obstetrics. Clotting problems leading to strokes and myocardial infarctions (in younger people) as well as a large variety of other syndromes such as chorea, hyproadrenalism, pulmonary problems are now being understood.

Vascular Manifestations of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases provides answe rs to all these questions. Dr. Ronald Asherson, Dr. Richard Cervera, a nd Dr. Douglas Triplett- all international experts in the field-have a ssembled a collection of works that provide a comprehensive analysis o f vascular irregularities. Now that most individuals survive the onset of acute systemic autoimmune diseases and live for decades more, halt ing the long-term attack on vasculature is increasingly important. Vas cular Manifestations of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases not only describe s the clinical symptoms of...