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This concise, practical handbook covers all aspects of the diagnosis and management of rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthropathies. Coverage includes:

Rheumatoid arthritis: pathogenesis, clinical features, laboratory investigations, imaging, predicting outcomes and health economics
Spondyloarthropathies: pathogenesis, clinical features, laboratory investigations and imaging followed by individual sections on each spondyloarthropathy
Symptomatic Drug Treatment: analgesics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs including coxibs
Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs:
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Produktbeschreibung
This concise, practical handbook covers all aspects of the diagnosis and management of rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthropathies. Coverage includes:



  • Rheumatoid arthritis: pathogenesis, clinical features, laboratory investigations, imaging, predicting outcomes and health economics


  • Spondyloarthropathies: pathogenesis, clinical features, laboratory investigations and imaging followed by individual sections on each spondyloarthropathy


  • Symptomatic Drug Treatment: analgesics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs including coxibs


  • Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs: methotrexate, leflunomide and other conventional DMARDs, combination therapy, current best practice


  • Biologics in Rheumatoid Arthritis: tumor necrosis factor inhibitors and other novel biologics, health economics


  • Systemic and Local Steroids




Non-pharmacological therapy: communication and patient education, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, surgery, dietary interventions and complementary therapies


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Autorenporträt
David L Scott is Professor of Clinical Rheumatology at King's College School of Medicine, London, UK. He also leads the clinical service at King's College Hospital, London. His medical training was in Leeds, and he was introduced to rheumatology by working with Professor Verna Wright. He subsequently spent some years in Birmingham, completing research training for his MD with Professor Kenneth Walton and Professor Paul Bacon. He was an ARC and Wellcome Trust travelling fellow in the US and Europe and subsequently held the Muir Hambro Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians. His research focuses on the treatment and outcome of arthritis, and he has written over 250 papers and been involved in 25 books in the field. He spent 5 years as editor of Rheumatology and is currently honorary Heberden Librarian at the British Society for Rheumatology. He is involved with many patient groups including Arthritis Care and the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance. He also serves on the Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board of the Department of Work and Pensions.