Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology (4th Edition)

Description

The fourth edition of Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology has been fully reviewed and practically structured. There is a comprehensive and updated account of assessment, guidelines, and treatment options. It focuses on presenting symptoms and considers key diseases, emergencies, and rare diseases in detail. It includes new chapters on rare autoinflammatory diseases (RAIDs) and hereditary disorders of connective tissue (HDCT) making this an invaluable guide for the trainee doctors and consultant rheumatologists.

Table of Contents

1. The presentation of rheumatic disease
   1. Evaluating rheumatological and musculoskeletal (MSK) symptoms
   2. Musculoskeletal (MSK) assessment and patterns of disease: making a working diagnosis
   3. Regional Musculoskeletal Symptoms: making a working diagnosis
   4. The spectrum of disorders associated with adult rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases
2. The clinical features and management of rheumatic disease
   1. Rheumatoid arthritis
   2. Osteoarthritis
   3. Crystal-induced musculoskeletal disease
   4. The spondyloarthritides (SpAs) including psoriatic arthritis
   5. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)
   6. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
   7. Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)
   8. Sjoegren’s syndrome
   9. Systemic sclerosis (SScl) and related disorders
   10. Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies including polymyositis and dermatomyositis
   11. Primary vasculitides
   12. Metabolic bone diseases
   13. Infection and rheumatic disease
   14. Rare autoinflammatory and miscellaneous diseases
   15. Hereditary disorders of connective tissue (HDCT)
   16. Common upper limb musculoskeletal lesions
   17. Spinal disorders and back pain
   18. Chronic pain syndromes
3. Medicine management and emergencies
   1. Drugs used in rheumatology practice
   2. Glucocorticoid injection therapy
   3. Rheumatological emergencies

Authors Biography

Dr Clunie is consultant rheumatologist and metabolic bone physician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge (since 2012) and trustee of the British Society of Rheumatology. He was Rheumatologist in Ipswich, where he set up the first English Fracture Liaison Service in Ipswich. The service has become a model for FLSs in many places worldwide. Dr Clunie’s subspecialty interests are rare bone diseases and Spondyloarthritis.

Dr Wilkinson is the George Koukis Lead for the paediatric rheumatology and paediatric chronic pain services at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, which he set up in 2014 to serve South London and South East Coastal Region of England. Prior to this he set up similar tertiary services for Thames Valley when he joined the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford in 2005 bringing his experience from working in Vancouver, Sydney and several centres across the UK. He continues to take many lead roles
across national societies and charities in these areas of medicine, with a particular interest in adolescent and young adult care, chronic pain and paediatric sports and exercise medicine.

Dr Nikiphorou is a consultant rheumatologist at the Whittington Hospital in London and a clinical academic at the Academic Rheumatology department of King’s College London. Her clinical and research interests focus on inflammatory arthritis, multimorbidity and patient reported outcomes. Dr Nikiphorou has a number of national and international roles and responsibilities, including being a member of the British Society of Rheumatology Heberden Committee and the Chair of the largest network of
young rheumatologists in Europe (EMEUNET).

Dr Jadon is a consultant rheumatologist, Director of the Rheumatology Research Unit, and lead for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Having grown up in Cardiff, he graduated from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 2003, and then undertook clinical training in rheumatology and general internal medicine in Bath and Bristol between 2007 – 2015. He completed his PhD thesis on ‘biomarkers of psoriatic arthritis phenotypes at the Royal National Hospital for
Rheumatic Diseases (Bath, UK) in 2015.

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