The kidney in systemic autoimmune diseases /

This volume brings together an international group of clinicians and clinical scientists to contribute to a state-of the-art review of the underlying pathogenic mechanisms, methods of clinical assessment, classification and diagnosis of renal disease, combined with a detailed overview of treatment s...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Mason, Justin C., Pusey, C. D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Handbook of systemic autoimmune diseases ; v. 7.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Pathogenic Mechanisms
  • Pathogenesis of renal disease autoimmunity
  • Pathogenesis of renal disease complement
  • Pathogenesis of renal disease cytokines & other soluble factors
  • Pathogenesis of renal disease cellular mechanisms
  • Pathogenesis of renal disease renal cell response to injury
  • Renal toxicity of drugs used in systemic AI disease
  • The vasculitides
  • AASV mechanisms
  • AASV clinical features and treatment
  • Large and medium vessel vasculitis mechanisms
  • Large and medium vessel vasculitis clinical features & Rx
  • Anti-GBM mechanisms, clinical features and treatment
  • Cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis
  • HSP
  • HUS/TTP
  • The connective tissue diseases
  • SLE mechanisms
  • SLE renal involvement
  • SLE treatment
  • APS
  • Sj̲grens syndrome
  • Systemic sclerosis
  • Amyloidosis
  • Miscellaneous (Inflammatory arthritis, sarcoid, Behcets).