BookGleb Slobodin, Yehuda Shoenfeld, editors.
Summary: This book provides a practical guide to the diagnosis and management of rheumatic disease in geriatric patients. It details information on the effect of ageing on musculoskeletal and immune systems and specifies impact of a variety of inflammatory and degenerative rheumatic disorders on the elderly. The clinical diagnostic approach to an older individual with musculoskeletal complaints is a cornerstone of this book, which includes also insights into the most important comorbidities for this age and discusses in depth available treatments and rehabilitation tools. The symptoms, imaging features and recommendations on the interpretation of specific laboratory tests for rheumatic diseases in geriatrics are also covered. This book encompasses traditionally associated with older age conditions including temporal arteritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, osteoarthritis, as well as common systemic autoimmune diseases that can produce atypical manifestations in the elderly. It will enable the readers to develop a thorough understanding of how to deal with these patients in their clinical practice. Rheumatic Disease in Geriatrics: Diagnosis and Management systematically describes how to diagnose and treat geriatric patients with a variety of rheumatic conditions and is a valuable resource for all medical professionals involved.
Contents:
Aging and rheumatology
Prevalence and significance of rheumatic conditions in geriatric population
Musculoskeletal system in elderly
Immune system in elderly
Pharmacokinetics and anti-rheumatic drugs in elderly
Non Steroidal AntiInflammatory Drugs
Synthetic Disease Modifying anti-Rheumatic Drugs
Biological Disease Modifying anti-Rheumatic Drugs
Glucocorticosteroids
Opiates and Cannabis
Comorbidities of rheumatic diseases in geriatric patients
Cardiovacular
Pulmonary
Osteoporosis
Ophtalmologic
Vaccination of elderly patients with rheumatic diseases
Laboratory diagnostics of rheumatic diseases in elderly
Musculoskeletal imaging in geriatric patients
Rheumatic disorders in elderly
Rheumatoid arthritis
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Systemic sclerosis, Sjogrens syndrome and other systemic autoimmune diseases
Gout
Calcium pyrophosphate dehydrate deposition disease
Osteoarthritis
Giant cell arteritis
Polymyalgia rheumatic
Spondyloarthritis
Septic arthritis
Autoinflammatory diseases
Fibromyalgia
Rheumatic conditions related to malignancies and their treatment
Approach to a geriatric patient with suspected rheumatic condition
Approach to a geriatric patient with monoarthritis
Approach to a geriatric patient with polyarthritis
Approach to a geriatric patient with shoulder pain
Approach to a geriatric patient with widespread pain
Approach to a geriatric patient with intractable back pain
Approach to a geriatric patient with suspected myopathy
Approach to a geriatric patient with suspected vasculitis
Approach to a geriatric patient in pain clinic
Rehabilitation of an elderly patient with rheumatic disorder.