Psoriatic arthritis
Over the past 30 years, there has been increasing recognition of psoriatic arthritis as a distinct clinical entity. Psoriatic arthritis occurs mostly in patients with psoriasis and may affect up to 1% of the general population. It has many similarities to other forms of spondyloarthritis, and must be differentiated from related conditions. Given that most patients with psoriatic arthritis have skin and musculoskeletal diseases that significantly affect their quality of life andfunction, patient…
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :Psoriatic arthritis / Dafna Gladman, Vinod Chandran and Cheryl Rosen.
Summary
Over the past 30 years, there has been increasing recognition of psoriatic arthritis as a distinct clinical entity. Psoriatic arthritis occurs mostly in patients with psoriasis and may affect up to 1% of the general population. It has many similarities to other forms of spondyloarthritis, and must be differentiated from related conditions. Given that most patients with psoriatic arthritis have skin and musculoskeletal diseases that significantly affect their quality of life andfunction, patients are ideally managed in a multidisciplinary clinic with rheumatologists, dermatologists and a nurse.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (128 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191014888, 0191014885, 130698016X, 9781306980166
- oclc:ocn886873978
- LC Classification:RC931.P76
- Dewey Decimal:616.7
Table of Contents
Cover; Psoriatic Arthritis; Copy right; Contents; Symbols and Abbreviations; 1 Epidemiology; 2 Diagnostic and classification criteria; 3 Aetiology and pathogenesis; 4 Clinical and laboratory features of musculoskeletal manifestations; 5 Skin and nail disease; 6 Imaging in psoriatic arthritis; 7 Making a diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis; 8 Assessment of diseaseactivity and damage inpsoriatic arthritis; 9 Therapeutics; 10 Surgery; 11 Co-morbidities; 12 Team approach to the management of psoriatic arthritis; 13 Prognosis; 14 The future; Index.
Read More ↓Subjects
Writers
More from this Series
No reviews yet. Be the first to rate this work.
Related Works
more →
The gastric sleeve bariatric cookbook: easy meal plans and recipes to eat well…
Kent, Sarah, (Dietitian)
The genomics age: how DNA technology is transforming the …
Files & Downloads
-
Psoriatic arthritis -- (.pdf)
PDF · 1.9 MB · updated
Rate & Review