Lippincott's Primary Care Rheumatology

This volume of Lippincott's Primary Care series will help family practitioners, internists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants understand, diagnose, and treat the most common rheumatologic problems seen in the primary care setting. Emphasis on day-to-day practical outpatient office practice distinguishes this from the many existing rheumatology textbooks and it contains numerous images to aid in diagnosis and treatment. Whenever possible, chapters follow a consistent format with headings of Clinical Presentation, Examination, Studies, Treatment, Clinical Course, and Conclusions and box elements such as Introductory Case, Clinical Points/Highlights, Patient Assessment, Not to Be Missed, and When to Refer. Key points are provided for those topics that don't fit this format. Features: • Folded in anatomical chart for the office • Fully searchable companion website with image bank • Includes lab tests and imaging used to diagnose conditions • Numerous images and boxed elements for clear and concise visual presentation • Patient education handouts • Topics include most commonly encountered rheumatologic disorders in primary care setting in the areas of: —Sport-related, occupational and other regional pain syndromes —Specific rheumatic diseases —Osteoarthritis and metabolic bone and joint disease —Infectious arthritis Contents Section 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES 1. Evaluation of Patients with Rheumatic Diseases Carlos A. Estrada and Gustavo R. Heudebert Section 2: SPORT-RELATED, OCCUPATIONAL AND OTHER REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES 2. Neck Pain Jerome Van Ruiswyk 3. Lower Back Pain and Lumbar Stenosis Lisa L. Willett 4. Shoulder Pain Dennis W. Boulware 5. Painful Feet Dennis W. Boulware and Gustavo R. Heudebert 6. Mechanical Disorders of the Knee Dennis W. Boulware 7. Hip Pain Carol Croft 8. Sports-related Conditions and Injuries Lisa L. Willett Section 3: SPECIFIC RHEUMATIC DISEASES: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT 9. Rheumatoid Arthritis including Sjögren’s Syndrome Zachary M. Pruhs, James R. O’Dell, and Ted R Mikuls 10. The Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies Dennis W. Boulware 11. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Michelle A. Petri 12. Raynaud’s Phenomenon and Systemic Sclerosis Laura B. Hughes and Barri Fessler 13. Inflammatory Myopathies: Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Related Conditions Irene Z. Whitt and Frederick W. Miller 14. Vasculitis Bao Quynh N. Huynh and S. Louis Bridges, Jr. 15. Giant Cell Arteritis and Polymyalgia Rheumatica Angelo Gaffo 16. Overlap Syndromes and Unclassified or Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease Iris Navarro and Graciela S. Alarcón 17. Fibromyalgia Graciela S. Alarcón 18. Pregnancy and Rheumatic Diseases Michael Lockshin Section 4: OSTEOARTHRITIS AND METABOLIC BONE AND JOINT DISEASE 19. Osteoarthritis Seth M. Berney 20. Gout and Crystal-induced Arthropathies Angelo Gaffo 21. Osteopenic Bone Disease and Osteonecrosis Kenneth G. Saag, Gregory A. Clines, and Sarah L. Morgan 22. Arthropathies Associated with Systemic Diseases Leann Maska and Amy C. Cannella Section 5: INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS 23. Bacterial Arthritis Arthur Kavanaugh and Maika Onishi 24. Lyme Disease William F. Iobst and Kristin Ingraham 25. Viral Arthritis Martin Rodriguez and Katherine Holman Section 6: SPECIAL DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC CONDITIONS 26. Use of the Laboratory in Diagnosing Rheumatic Disorders Gustavo R. Heudebert and Terry Shaneyfelt 27. Techniques of Arthrocentesis Dennis W. Boulware 28. Monitoring of Patients on Antirheumatic Therapy W. Winn Chatham