Rheumatology Secrets

I. GENERAL CONCEPTS 1. Classification and Health Impact of the Rheumatic Diseases 2. Rheumatology's Ten Golden Rules 3. Anatomy and Physiology of the Musculoskeletal System II. SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES 4. Overview of the Immune Response 5. Overview of the Inflammatory Response 6. Immunogenetics of the Rheumatic Diseases 7. Tolerance and Autoimmunity III. EVALUATION OF THE PATIENT WITH RHEUMATIC SYMPTOMS 8. History and Physical Examination 9. Laboratory Evaluation 10. Arthrocentesis and Synovial Fluid Analysis 11. Radiographic and Imaging Modalities 12. Synovial Biopsies 13. Electromyography and Nerve Conduction Studies 14. Approach to the Patient with Monoarticular Symptoms 15. Approach to the Patient with Polyarticular Symptoms 16. Approach to the Patient with Neuromuscular Symptoms 17. Health Status Measurements 18. Preoperative Assessment of Patients with Rheumatic Disease IV. SYSTEMIC CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES 19. Rheumatoid Arthritis 20. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus 21. Drug-induced Lupus 22. Systemic Sclerosis 23. Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome, Diffuse Fasciitis with Eosinophilia, and Rheumatic Disease Associated with Silicone Breast Implants 24. Inflammatory Muscle Disease 25. Overlap Syndromes and Mixed Connective Tissue Disease 26. Sjogren's Syndrome 27. Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome 28. Adult-onset Still's Disease 29. Polymyalgia Rheumatica V. THE VASCULITIDES AND RELATED DISORDERS 30. Approach to the Patient with Suspected Vasculitis 31. Large-Vessel Vasculitis: Giant Cell Arteritis and Takayasu's Arteritis 32. Medium-Vessel Vasculitides: Polyarteritis Nodosa, Allergic Angiitis and Granulomatosis of Churg-Strauss, and Thromboangiitis Obliterans 33. Wegener's Granulomatosis and Other ANCA-associated Diseases 34. Small-Vessel Vasculitides, including Henoch-Schonlein Purpura and Urticarial Vasculitis 35. Cryoglobulinemia 36. Behcet's Syndrome 37. Relapsing Polychondritis VI. SERONEGATIVE SPONDYLOARTHROPATHIES 38. Ankylosing Spondylitis 39. Enteropathic Arthritides 40. Reiter's Syndrome and Reactive Arthritides 41. Arthritis Associated with Psoriasis and Other Skin Diseases VII. ARTHRITIS ASSOCIATED WITH INFECTIOUS AGENTS 42. Bacterial Septic Arthritis 43. Lyme Disease 44. Mycobacterial and Fungal Joint and Bone Diseases 45. Viral Arthritides 46. AIDS-associated Rheumatic Syndromes 47. Whipple's Disease 48. Acute Rheumatic Fever VIII. RHEUMATIC DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH METABOLIC, ENDOCRINE, AND HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES 49. Gout 50. Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Deposition Disease 51. Hydroxyapatite ad Other Crystalline Diseases 52. Endocrine-associated Arthropathies 53. Arthropathies Associated with Hematologic Diseases 54. Malignancy-associated Rheumatic Disorders IX. BONE AND CARTILAGE DISORDERS 55. Osteoarthritis 56. Metabolic Bone Disease 57. Paget's Disease of Bone 58. Osteonecrosis X. HEREDITARY, CONGENITAL, AND INBORN ERRORS OF METABOLISM ASSOCIATED WITH RHEUMATIC SYNDROMES 59. Heritable Collagen Disorders 60. Inborn Errors of Metabolism Affecting Connective Tissue 61. Storage and Deposition Diseases 62. Rheumatic Manifestations of the Primary Immunodeficiency Syndromes 63. Bone and Joint Dysplasias XI. NONARTICULAR AND REGIONAL MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS 64. Approach to the Patient with Neck and Low Back Pain 65. Fibromyalgia 66. Regional Musculoskeletal Disorders 67. Sports Medicine and Occupational Injuries 68. Entrapment Neuropathies 69. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome XII. NEOPLASMS AND TUMOR-LIKE LESIONS 70. Benign and Malignant Tumors of Joints and Synovium 71. Common Bony Lesions: Radiographic Features XIII. PEDIATRIC RHEUMATIC DISEASES 72. Approach to the Child with Joint Pain 73. Juvenile Chronic Arthritis 74. Juvenile Systemic Connective Tissue Diseases 75. Kawasaki's Disease XIV. MISCELLANEOUS RHEUMATIC DISORDERS 76. Metabolic and Other Genetic Myopathies 77. Amyloidosis 78. Raynaud's Phenomenon 79. Uveitis 80. Rheumatic Syndromes Associated with Sarcoidosis 81. Rheumatic Disorders in the Dialysis Patient 82. Rheumatic Disease and the Pregnant Patient 83. Odd and Ends XV. MANAGEMENT OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES 84. Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs 85. Glucocorticoids-Systemic ad Injectable 86. Systemic Antirheumatic Drugs 87. Cytotoxic Drugs and Immunomodulators 88. Hypouricemic Agents and Colchicine 89. Bone-strengthening Agents 90. Rehabilitative Techniques 91. Psychosocial Aspects of Rheumatic Diseases 92. Surgical Treatment and Rheumatic Disorders 93. Disability XVI. FINAL SECRETS 94. Unconventional Remedies and Folk Medicine 95. History, the Arts, and Rheumatic Diseases 96. Sir William Osler, I Presume