TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ramos-Casals,Manuel
AU  - Stone,John H.
AU  - Moutsopoulos,Haralampos M.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Sjögren’s Syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics 
SN  - 9780857299475
AV  - RC927-927.5 
U1  - 616.723 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Springer London
KW  - Medicine
KW  - General practice (Medicine)
KW  - Internal medicine
KW  - Rheumatology
KW  - Ophthalmology
KW  - Medicine & Public Health
KW  - Internal Medicine
KW  - General Practice / Family Medicine
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Epidemiology -- Genetics and Proteomics -- Immunopathogenesis -- Viruses -- Etiopathogenic role of B-cells -- Oral involvement -- Ocular involvement -- Ear, nose and throat involvement -- Fatigue, fibromyalgia and other general symptoms -- Musculoskeletal involvement -- Non-vasculitic cutaneous involvement -- Vasculitis -- Cardiovascular involvement -- Pulmonary involvement -- Raynaud phenomenon -- Gastrointestinal involvement -- Autoimmune liver involvement -- Pancreatic involvement -- Nephro-urological involvement -- Central nervous system involvement -- Peripheral neuropathy -- Autonomic neuropathy -- Endocrine involvement -- Gynecological and obstetrical complications -- Laboratory abnormalities -- Diagnostic procedures (I) -- Diagnostic procedures (II) -- Immunological tests -- Classification criteria -- Measurement of chronicity and activity -- Measurement of quality of life -- Association with other autoimmune and rheumatic diseases -- Cancer -- Prognostic factors and survival -- SS in primary care.-Treatment of sicca features -- Treatment of B-cell lymphoma -- Classic immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory drugs -- New immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory drugs -- B-cell targeted therapies -- Other biological therapies -- Experimental therapies
N2  - Sjögren’s Syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics provides a thorough, multisystemic overview of the clinical manifestations of Sjögren’s Syndrome. It contains chapters pertinent across the range of medical specialties that may encounter Sjögren’s Syndrome cases. Chapters are specialty-specific, for easy reference by the relevant medical specialist. In addition to being a diagnostic guide, Sjögren’s Syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics  includes a section on prognosis and outcomes of Sjögren’s Syndrome patients and provides an exhaustive therapeutic update, focused on new agents and experimental techniques. The inclusion of diagnostic/therapeutic algorithms illustrates the text with clinical photographs of the main organs involved and helps the reader to make guided diagnostic and therapeutic decisions through decision-based algorithms
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