This book is a comprehensive review of vasculitis, a fascinating array of the life-threatening and minor conditions caused by inflammatory syndromes and diseases that affect the blood vessels. It brings together in a unique way, consepts from both the biology and clinical aspects of vasculitis. Research in clinical immunology now invigorates the entire area of vasculitis, and shape a rational approach to pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment which is the substance of this text. Over 40 chapters cover known vasculitic ...
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This book is a comprehensive review of vasculitis, a fascinating array of the life-threatening and minor conditions caused by inflammatory syndromes and diseases that affect the blood vessels. It brings together in a unique way, consepts from both the biology and clinical aspects of vasculitis. Research in clinical immunology now invigorates the entire area of vasculitis, and shape a rational approach to pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment which is the substance of this text. Over 40 chapters cover known vasculitic conditions, and are illustrated with numerous photographs, diagrams and tables. Some chapters, such as that of aortitis, are brief, and others, such as those devoted to Behcet's disease, are much longer, in keeping with their prevalence. The authors have been chosen based on their unique experiences with vasculitic conditions. Most of these conditions are rare in most areas of the globe, and it is the exceptional clinician who has much experience with more than a few of these; thus, drawing upon authors from all over the world has enabled the editors to provide informed discussions of all of them. The book is illustrated with numerous color illustrations of clinical manifestations and also contains superb illustrations of invasive and non-invasive imaging.
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New. 0192630539. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-601 pages--Interior text is clean, tight, and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. From a review in the "New England Journal of Medicine": "This book takes a systematic and quite comprehensive look at vasculitis from a somewhat unorthodox, but very successful, point of view. Individual forms of vasculitis are described chapter by chapter, and the chapters, which cover every known form of named vasculitis, are uniformly excellent. The editors have gone out of their way to find authors from around the world to gather firsthand, detailed information, not only on the common entities such as Wegener's granulomatosis and polyarteritis nodosa but also on conditions that are rare in North America--for example, Behcet's syndrome and Takayasu's arteritis. In addition, the editors have added several broad introductory sections. Under the heading of 'Clinical Manifestations Common to Vasculitis, ' individual chapters deal with cutaneous, oral, pulmonary, ophthalmic, neurologic, renal, and distal ischemic changes in many different forms of vasculitis. These chapters are comprehensive overviews of each organ system and range, depending on the authors' interests, from signs and symptoms to radiologic and, in some instances, pathological findings. Separate discussions of conditions that mimic vasculitis, including an excellent chapter on the antiphospholipid-antibody syndrome, provide help with differential diagnosis. Although the approach of having both organ-specific and disease-specific chapters produces redundancy, the redundancy is probably beneficial since it allows the expression of several points of view."--with a bonus offer--
