Rheumatic disease in geriatrics : diagnosis and management

Rheumatic disease in geriatrics : diagnosis and management / Gleb Slobodin, Yehuda Shoenfeld, editors.

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....

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Other Authors: Slobodin, Gleb, Shoenfeld, Yehuda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2020.
Subjects:
Rheumatism > Age factors.
Age factors in disease.
Human beings.
Homo sapiens (species)
Rheumatology.
Medical > Rheumatology.
Rheumatism > Age factors
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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