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Rheumatology Secrets

  • 5 Edición - 27 de septiembre de 2025
  • Última edición
  • Editores: Jason Kolfenbach, Sterling G. West
  • Idioma: Inglés

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 qu… Leer más

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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.

Puntos claves

  • The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time—succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective
  • Fully revised and updated throughout, offering practical coverage of basic immunology and pathophysiology, important disease manifestations, and clinical management issues related to common and uncommon rheumatic disorders, including a new chapter on IgG4-related disease
  • Keeps you up to date with new techniques and technologies, as well as changing treatment options and drug information
  • Helps ensure mastery of the material with more than 100 board-style questions available online that provide effective review and quick practice for your exams
  • Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

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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 III Systemic Connective Tissue Diseases

14. Rheumatoid Arthritis

15. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

16. Drug-Induced Lupus Erythematosus

17. Systemic Sclerosis

18. Scleroderma Mimics

19. Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

20. Mixed Connective Tissue Disease, Overlap Syndromes, and Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease

21. Sjögren Disease

22. Antiphospholipid Syndrome

23. Adult-Onset Still’s Disease

24. Polymyalgia Rheumatica

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. Behçet 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

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 5
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 19 de diciembre de 2025
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los editores

JK

Jason Kolfenbach

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA

SW

Sterling G. West

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA