Antiphospholipid Syndrome Handbook (eBook)
X, 93 Seiten
Springer London (Verlag)
978-1-84628-735-0 (ISBN)
This book discusses the major clinical features of the antiphospholipid syndrome. It provides a quick, practical and reader-friendly reference for the different problems that might be encountered in clinical practice. Treatment is a major concern in an area where evidence-based medicine is sparse and there are chapters dedicated to diagnosis from a laboratory point of view. Further chapters focus on subjects including pregnancy management, arterial thrombosis and prognosis. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of this disease, the primary readership groups are general and internal medicine physicians and sub-specialties, including rheumatologists, hematologists, cardiovascular physicians, and obstetricians, among others.
The antiphospholipid syndrome (Hughes syndrome) is now over a quarter of a century old. Although most of the major clinical features were described in the original papers between 1983 and 1985, the ensuing 25 years have seen a filling out of the clinical detail and recognition that the syndrome is of major medical importance. More significantly, much has been learnt of the prevalence and epidemiology of the syndrome as well as the biology of the thrombotic process so central to the condition. Sadly, all that lags behind is treatment, the choice of drugs still very limited. The syndrome now embraces all disciplines. It is now regarded as the commonest treatable cause of recurrent pregnancy loss, and has changed the face of obstetrics. It has become a major chapter in the field of neurology, being an important cause of stroke, migraine, seizures, and memory loss. In cardiology, it is at last becoming recognized as an important cause of young heart attacks, as well as providing leads in the study of accelerated atheroma. And so the list goes on - idiopathic bone fracture, abdo- nal angina, renal vascular hypertension, leg ulcers... This book, produced by clinical leaders in the field, brings together the many strands of another "e;great mimic"e;.
Foreword 5
Contents 6
History 9
Epidemiology 11
Antiphospholipid Antibodies 13
Classification Criteria for APS 23
Mortality, Morbidity, and Damage Associated with aPL 25
Differences Between Primary and Secondary APS 27
Clinical Features 29
aPL and Transplantation 71
Differential Diagnosis 73
Management of APS 77
Photographic Examples of Clinical Manifestations of APS 87
Index 99
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.1.2010 |
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Zusatzinfo | X, 93 p. 41 illus., 38 illus. in color. |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Dermatologie |
Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Rheumatologie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie | |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie | |
Schlagworte | Antiphospholipid Syndrome • APS • Cardiovascular • Hughes Syndrome • Internal Medicine • Sticky Blood Syndrome • Transplantation |
ISBN-10 | 1-84628-735-9 / 1846287359 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84628-735-0 / 9781846287350 |
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