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Paperback: 436 pages
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1st edition (January 15, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0750696133
ISBN-13: 978-0750696135.

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Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland. Text on the diagnosis and therapy of neurologic pathologic conditions that arise as a result of rheumatic diseases, for rheumatologists and neurologists.

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Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Mosby; 1 Pap/Psc edition (April 10, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0723433895
ISBN-13: 978-0723433897.

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This is a textbook for medical students covering orthopaedics, trauma and rheumatology, offering both core information regarding what the student needs to know about these subject areas and an extensive series of cases with questions and answers that illustrate the thinking behind common everyday practice. The package also offers online access to the text and images, plus an additional 80 interactive MCQs and answers.

• Provides a comprehensive overview of musculoskeletal medicine and surgery perfectly tailored for the busy medical student
• Illustrated in full colour throughout
• Succinct coverage of essential topics helps aid understanding whilst avoid unnecessary detail thus saving time
• Uniform style of chapters throughout allows readers to easily scan through for the information required
• Useful summary boxes outline the main points of each condition including aetiology, pathology, epidemiology, clinical features, investigations, management and prognosis
• 100 case histories with questions illustrate the range of clinical problems that students will encounter during their clinical placements
• Direct linking of cases to chapters so that readers can refer back to sections of core text whenever required, or look up cases relevant to a particular chapter.

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Paperback: 296 pages
Publisher: Humana Press; 1st Edition. edition (November 2, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1617378623
ISBN-13: 978-1617378621.

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In this book, experts provide a comprehensive review of current knowledge regarding nutrition and dietary management for the complex set of rheumatic conditions. Within the disease-specific chapters, the authors present a historical perspective, a discussion of the major clinical features, current management and treatment, a review of the literature related to nutritional status and diet, and dietary recommendations, based on current scientific evidence. The field of rheumatic diseases includes a wide variety of pathologic processes. This book will greatly benefit physicians specializing in internal medicine, family practice, and rheumatology.

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Hardcover: 358 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (July 26, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540242279
ISBN-13: 978-3540242277.

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The concept of selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) has emerged recently in modern medicine. Two main features, the evidence of the wide expression of estrogen receptors in organs and systems and the growing information on the determinants of estrogen action, have allowed the envisioning of compounds with “a la carte” estrogenic profiles. The availability of substances performing as agonists wherever the estrogenic action is beneficial and as antagonists where it is not, is becoming less of a dream than of a closer reality. This book is an up-to-date review of the principal basic mechanisms and the clinical data integrating the actual current knowledge on SERMs.

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Hardcover: 225 pages
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel; 1 edition (May 4, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3764382376
ISBN-13: 978-3764382377.

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The volume focuses on therapeutic targets that were identified after TNF blockade and that have recently been registered or are currently under development for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Each chapter discusses the biological rationale in great detail, including in vitro work and work in animal models, and where appropriate, results form clinical trials.

The book is written by an international authorship of experts in this field. It is of interest to rheumatologists, immunologists, internists, investigators in immunology and rheumatology as well as the pharmaceutical industry.

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Hardcover: 250 pages
Publisher: Springer Basel; 1st Edition. edition (July 16, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3034601646
ISBN-13: 978-3034601641.

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This book addresses the latest advances in viral and non-viral vectors, novel targets and methods for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory disease with a main focus in pre-clinical testing with up to date clinical trials. The first section of the book deals with current research approaches for treating rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, diabetes, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Sjögrens syndrome, cystic fibrosis, myositis and lupus. The second section is devoted to cell delivery and vector development including plasmids, regulated promoters, adenovirus gutted vectors and adeno-associated vectors. All chapters are summarised by leaders in these fields. A must read for post graduate students, clinical and non-clinical researchers in the disciplines of immunology, molecular medicine, pharmacology, gene and cell-mediated therapy.

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Paperback: 246 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 14, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 2287597573
ISBN-13: 978-2287597572.

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This collection of the general work of 18 authors deals with most of the problems of osteo-articular pathology of the foot and ankle in Rheumatoid Arthritis. The extensive and detailed information about the diagnostic and the therapeutic problems of the disease are included. The essential data of pathomechanics are exposed and discussed. The chapters on pathology and therapeutics are approached through a clinical framework, accompanied by multiple photographs and offer classical and recent references. The topic of foot orthoses and shoes is easily understandable. The main notions on ankle prostheses are particularly exposed and discussed. The chapters are so clearly presented that they will interest non-specialists and specialists alike. In some of the areas of the treatment an extremely experienced author offers his point of view on the indications of the therapeutic approaches. This book will appeal to all specialists concerned by the knowledge of the foot and ankle in Rheumatoid Arthritis, whatever their areas of practice.

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Hardcover: 328 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 30, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0792383664
ISBN-13: 978-0792383666.

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Modern society is altering the lifestyle and longevity of its members much more quickly than evolutionary adaptation to these changes can take place. The problem of calcium deficiency in the population is compounded by the growing percentage of aged individuals with relatively fragile, less massive skeletons. Current-day civilizations are much more effective in prolonging human life in a state of relative debility than even a few decades ago. This reality is unlikely to change and mandates that we develop strategies to prevent aging-related diseases like osteoporosis before they become manifest. Osteoporosis: Genetics, Prevention and Treatment places emphasis on the (1) genetic predisposition, (2) early recognition and (3) prevention of osteoporosis. The intent is not to move the practitioner’s attention away from intervention therapy of osteoporosis, but rather to expand their view of this disease as one beginning at birth and one in which susceptibility is manifest at the conclusion of adolescence, not at menopause. The book concludes with an informed view of the future in terms of the recognition, prevention and management of osteoporosis.

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Paperback: 141 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1st Edition. edition (November 2, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1441941452
ISBN-13: 978-1441941459.

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Tissue Repair, Contraction and the Myofibroblast summarizes the latest findings concerning the biology of the myofibroblast, a cell involved in the evolution and contraction of granulation tissue and of fibrotic changes. Coverage shows that the myofibroblast is responsible for the development of hypertrophic scars, pulmonary and renal fibrosis and bronchial asthma. Reviews the cell biology and pathology of the myofibroblast as well as mechanisms of fibrosis evolution in many organs and tissues.

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Hardcover: 92 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1st Edition. edition (September 8, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3211993584
ISBN-13: 978-3211993583

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This monograph offers current insights into polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis. Both diseases are typical for advanced age and their incidences increase with aging. Early diagnosis and rapid treatment can save one of the most precious senses – our vision. This book provides an overview on the pathophysiology, their genetic, immunologic, endocrinologic mechanism of these diseases, but most important it deals with state-of-the-art diagnosis and current treatment in elderly with the attempt to diagnose and treat these rheumatic diseases even faster and more effectively in the future.

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