Main description:

Key Features
* Features concise yet thorough description of the landmark studies and scientific breakthroughs coupled with easy-to-follow organizational structure of chapters that are accessible to readers at different levels of training.
* Brings together world-leading experts to provide a fresh perspective to trainees such as residents and fellows-in-training, as well as more senior clinicians and researchers across the field of rheumatology and in specialties such as cardiology, dermatology, pulmonology, nephrology, and neurology, all of whom care for patients with rheumatologic conditions.
* Allows the author to imagine and speculate about the evolution of this field in the coming decades. Examples of such speculative possibilities include use of synovial biopsy to predict response to treatment in rheumatoid arthritis, replacement of renal biopsy with urinary proteomics in diagnosing and classifying lupus nephritis, use of new therapeutics to obviate the need for steroids in the treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis, use of machine learning to evaluate subtle changes in imaging in management of inflammatory arthritis, etc.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Chapter 2: Axial Spondyloarthritis
Chapter 3: Psoriatic arthritis
Chapter 4: Crystalline Arthritis
Chapter 5: Osteoarthritis
Chapter 6: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Chapter 7: Sjogren's Disease
Chapter 8: Scleroderma
Chapter 9: Myositis
Chapter 10: Vasculitis
Chapter 11: Osteoporosis
Chapter 12: Immune-related Adverse Events: A Novel Paradigm of the Immune System
Chapter 13: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Rheumatic Disease
Chapter 14: COVID-19 and MIS-C