Title | The Vasculitides [electronic resource] : Science and practice / edited by B. M. Ansell, P. A. Bacon, J. T. Lie, H. Yazici |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1996 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2889-4 |
Descript | XXIII, 447 p. online resource |
One Classification and Histology -- 1 Vasculitis โ then and now -- 2 Classification and histopathologic specificity of systemic vasculitis -- Two Disease Mechanisms and Investigations -- 3 Vasculitis: mechanisms of injury -- 4 Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA): current perspectives -- 5 Antiendothelial cell antibodies, antiphospholipid antibodies and vascular disease -- 6 Adhesion molecules in disease: vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 as a target for therapy -- 7 MRI and CT in vasculitis -- 8 Angiography in vasculitis: its role in diagnosis and in the management of complications -- Three Primary and Systemic Vasculitides -- 9 Polyarteritis nodosa: clinical aspects -- 10 Microscopic polyarteritis (MPA) -- 11 New concepts in Wegenerโs granulomatosis -- 12 Giant cell arteritis -- 13 Takayasu arteritis: a current update -- 14 Behรงetโs syndrome with emphasis on clinical genetics and mortality -- 15 Endothelial cell dysfunction in Behรงetโs disease -- 16 Pulmonary vasculitides -- 17 Angiitis of the central nervous system -- Four Connective Tissue and Dermal Vasculitides -- 18 Rheumatoid vasculitis -- 19 Vasculitis in primary Sjรถgrenโs syndrome -- 20 Mixed cryoglobulinemia: the role of HCV and organ-specific antibodies -- 21 Cutaneous vasculitis -- Five Management -- 22 Treatment of severe vasculitis: general principles and the use of corticosteroids -- 23 Therapy of vasculitis -- 24 Treatment of polyarteritis nodosa and Churg-Strauss syndrome -- 25 Relapses of Wegenerโs granulomatosis: role of micro-organisms and prophylaxis with trimethoprim/ sulfamethoxazole -- 26 Alternative treatments for systemic vasculitis -- Six Vasculitis in Childhood -- 27 Juvenile dermatomyositis -- 28 Kawasaki syndrome -- 29 Kawasaki syndrome: the Florentine experience -- 30 Vasculitis and its relation to the streptococcus -- 31 Schรถnlein-Henoch purpura nephritis -- 32 Vasculitis in familial Mediterranean fever -- 33 Behรงetโs syndrome in children