Autoimmune Disease Diagnosis. Systemic and Organ-specific Diseases

This book contains the essential information required by physicians and bench scientists to understand the definition of a given autoimmune disease and its diagnostic criteria and treatment. Autoimmune diseases are a family of more than one hundred chronic, and often disabling, illnesses that develop when underlying defects in the immune system lead the body to attack its own organs, tissues, and cells. In Autoimmune Disease Diagnosis: Systemic and Organ-specific Diseases, the editors have gathered a critical review by renowned experts of more than 120 autoimmune diseases. A contemporary overview of these conditions with special emphasis on diagnosis is presented.

This edition of Autoimmune Disease Diagnosis is divided into two parts, the first covering systemic autoimmune diseases, and the second covering organ-specific autoimmune diseases. They cover all the newly approved classification criteria, such as those for systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome, several systemic vasculitis, etc. This edition also reviews newly described systemic autoimmune conditions: immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy, VEXAS, immunoglobulin G4-associated autoimmune disease, autoimmune/autoinflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA), and autoimmune manifestations induced by immune-therapies. Several organ-specific diseases have been added, including autoimmune alopecia and other immune-mediated dermatosis, autoimmune encephalitis, and autoimmune dysautonomia, among others. This is an essential guide to the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases for internists, rheumatologists, clinical immunologists, primary care physicians, and bench scientists.

• contains the essential information required to understand the definition of specific autoimmune diseases, the diagnostic criteria, and treatment recommendations
• focuses on immunopathology and autoimmunity
• contains expert reviews of more than 100 autoimmune diseases

CONTENTS 

Front Matter

Classical Systemic Autoimmune Diseases

Systemic Vasculitis

Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

Other Immune-Mediated Systemic Diseases

Endocrine and Reproductive Autoimmune Diseases

Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Autoimmune Diseases

Gastrointestinal Autoimmune Diseases

Cutaneous Autoimmune Diseases

Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Autoimmune Diseases

Neurological Autoimmune Diseases

Ocular Autoimmune Diseases

Renal Autoimmune Diseases

Hematologic Autoimmune Diseases

Back Matter