Lippincott's Primary Care Rheumatology
This volume of Lippincott's Primary Care Series will help family practitioners, internists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants understand, diagnose, and treat the most common rheumatologic problems seen in the primary care setting. Emphasis on day-to-day practical outpatient office practice distinguishes this from the many existing rheumatology textbooks and it contains numerous images to aid in diagnosis and treatment. Whenever possible, chapters follow a consistent format with headings of Clinical Presentation, Examination, Studies, Treatment, Clinical Course, and Conclusions and box elements such as Introductory Case, Clinical Points/Highlights, Patient Assessment, Not to Be Missed, and When to Refer. Key points are provided for those topics that don't fit this format.
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Lippincott's Primary Care Rheumatology
This volume of Lippincott's Primary Care Series will help family practitioners, internists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants understand, diagnose, and treat the most common rheumatologic problems seen in the primary care setting. Emphasis on day-to-day practical outpatient office practice distinguishes this from the many existing rheumatology textbooks and it contains numerous images to aid in diagnosis and treatment. Whenever possible, chapters follow a consistent format with headings of Clinical Presentation, Examination, Studies, Treatment, Clinical Course, and Conclusions and box elements such as Introductory Case, Clinical Points/Highlights, Patient Assessment, Not to Be Missed, and When to Refer. Key points are provided for those topics that don't fit this format.
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Lippincott's Primary Care Rheumatology

Lippincott's Primary Care Rheumatology

Lippincott's Primary Care Rheumatology

Lippincott's Primary Care Rheumatology

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This volume of Lippincott's Primary Care Series will help family practitioners, internists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants understand, diagnose, and treat the most common rheumatologic problems seen in the primary care setting. Emphasis on day-to-day practical outpatient office practice distinguishes this from the many existing rheumatology textbooks and it contains numerous images to aid in diagnosis and treatment. Whenever possible, chapters follow a consistent format with headings of Clinical Presentation, Examination, Studies, Treatment, Clinical Course, and Conclusions and box elements such as Introductory Case, Clinical Points/Highlights, Patient Assessment, Not to Be Missed, and When to Refer. Key points are provided for those topics that don't fit this format.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781451153903
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health
Publication date: 03/28/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
File size: 7 MB

Table of Contents


Section 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES

1. Evaluation of Patients with Rheumatic Diseases
Carlos A. Estrada and Gustavo R. Heudebert

Section 2: SPORT-RELATED, OCCUPATIONAL AND OTHER REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES

2. Neck Pain
Jerome Van Ruiswyk

3. Lower Back Pain and Lumbar Stenosis
Lisa L. Willett

4. Shoulder Pain
Dennis W. Boulware

5. Painful Feet
Dennis W. Boulware and Gustavo R. Heudebert

6. Mechanical Disorders of the Knee
Dennis W. Boulware

7. Hip Pain
Carol Croft

8. Sports-related Conditions and Injuries
Lisa L. Willett

Section 3: SPECIFIC RHEUMATIC DISEASES: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

9. Rheumatoid Arthritis including Sjögren’s Syndrome
Zachary M. Pruhs, James R. O’Dell, and Ted R Mikuls

10. The Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies
Dennis W. Boulware

11. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Michelle A. Petri

12. Raynaud’s Phenomenon and Systemic Sclerosis
Laura B. Hughes and Barri Fessler

13. Inflammatory Myopathies: Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Related Conditions
Irene Z. Whitt and Frederick W. Miller

14. Vasculitis
Bao Quynh N. Huynh and S. Louis Bridges, Jr.

15. Giant Cell Arteritis and Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Angelo Gaffo

16. Overlap Syndromes and Unclassified or Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease
Iris Navarro and Graciela S. Alarcón

17. Fibromyalgia
Graciela S. Alarcón

18. Pregnancy and Rheumatic Diseases
Michael Lockshin

Section 4: OSTEOARTHRITIS AND METABOLIC BONE AND JOINT DISEASE

19. Osteoarthritis
Seth M. Berney

20. Gout and Crystal-induced Arthropathies
Angelo Gaffo

21. Osteopenic Bone Disease and Osteonecrosis
Kenneth G. Saag, Gregory A. Clines, and Sarah L. Morgan

22. Arthropathies Associated with Systemic Diseases
Leann Maska and Amy C. Cannella

Section 5: INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS

23. Bacterial Arthritis
Arthur Kavanaugh and Maika Onishi

24. Lyme Disease
William F. Iobst and Kristin Ingraham

25. Viral Arthritis
Martin Rodriguezand Katherine Holman

Section 6: SPECIAL DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC CONDITIONS

26. Use of the Laboratory in Diagnosing Rheumatic Disorders
Gustavo R. Heudebert and Terry Shaneyfelt

27. Techniques of Arthrocentesis
Dennis W. Boulware

28. Monitoring of Patients on Antirheumatic Therapy
W. Winn Chatham
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