Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Rheumatoid ArthritisAuthor: Madsen, Michael H. (EDT)Publisher: Nova Science Pub IncPublication Date: 2011/03/31Number of Pages: 188Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress: 2010036151

Product Description: Rheumatoid Arthritis is a common condition, affecting almost 1% of the UK population, meaning that most GPs will see and treat it within their practice. Rheumatoid Arthritis in Practice is devised to give GPs an overview of the wide and varied treatment options open to them...read more

Product Description: This monograph correlates basic observations of rheumatoid arthritis with clinical aspects of the disease process and current treatment therapies. Covers the history of rheumatoid arthritis, demography and epidemiology, initiating and sustaining factors, immunogenetics, initiations of the immune response in synovium, rheumatoid factors and autoimmunity, autocrine and paracrine control of rheumatoid inflammation, acute inflammation and synovial fluid, synovial cells and their transformation, the dynamics of joint destruction, articular and extra-articular manifestations, clinical and radiographic diagnosis, and prognosis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Explores current topics in the pathogenesis, assessment, outcome, data recording, prognosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, summarizing views on controversial issues as well as suggesting possible directions for future research.

Product Description: Directed at general practitioners, this book emphasizes a practical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of the more commonly seen rheumatic disorders. It stresses when and how most disorders can be treated by the general practitioner and when patients should be referred to a specialist...read more

Describes the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of arthritis and answers questions about the nature of the disease and ways sufferers can attempt to lead a normal life