Practical Rheumatology

SECTION 1: THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF RHEUMATIC DISEASE 1.Principles of Adaptive Immunology 2.Inflammation SECTION 2: EVALUATION, SIGNS, AND SYMPTOMS 3.History and Physical Examination 4.Pattern Recognition in Arthritis 5.Laboratory Tests in Rheumatic Disorders 6.Aspiration and Injection of Joints and Periarticular Tissues 7.Skin and Rheumatic Disease SECTION 3: PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT 8.Principles of Management of Patients with Rheumatic Disease 9.Principles of Pain and Pain Management 10.Non Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs 11.Systemic Corticosteroids in Rheumatology 12.Complementary and Alternative Medicine SECTION 4: REGIONAL AND WIDESPREAD PAIN 13.Neck Pain 14.Lower Back and Lumbar Spine Stenosis 15.The Shoulder 16.The Elbow 17.The Wrist and Hand 18.The Hip 19.The Knee 20.Fibromyaglia and Related Syndromes 21.Sports Medicine: The Clinical Spectrum of Injury SECTION 5: RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND OTHER SYNOVIAL DISORDERS 22.Clinical Features of Rheumatoid Arthritis 23.Evaluation and Management of Early Inflammatory Polyarthritis 24.Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Synovitis SECTION 6:PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY 25.Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Complaints in Children SECTION 7: INFECTION-RELATED RHEUMATIC DISORDERS 26.Septic Arthritis and Osteomyelitis 27.Lyme Disease SECTION 8: SPONDYLOARTHROPATHIES 28.Clinical Features of Ankylosing Spondylitis 29.Ankylosing Spondylitis: Management 30.Reactive Arthritis: Clinical Features and Treatment 31.Psoriatic Arthritis: Clinical Features 32.Psoriatic Arthritis: Management SECTION 9: CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISORDERS Systemic Lupus Erythematosus 33.Clinical Features 34.Treatment of constitutional Symptoms, cardiopulmonary, hematologic and central nervous manifestations SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS 35.Clinical Features of Systemic Sclerosis 36.Raynaud's Phenomenon INFLAMMATORY MUSCLE DISEASE 37.Inflammatory Disease: Clinical Features SECTION 10: THE VASCULITIDES 38.Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis Inflammatory Disease SECTION 11: OSTEOARTHRITIS AND RELATED DISORDERS 39.Clinical Features 40.Management of Limb Joint Osteoarthritis SECTION 12: CRYSTAL-RELATED ARTHROPATHIES 41.Clinical Features of Gout 42.The Management of Gout 43.Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition disease SECTION 13: METABOLIC BONE DISORDERS 44.Osteoporosis: Clinical Features 45.Management of Osteoporosis 46.Glucocorticoid-induced Arthritis Index