Dictionary of Rheumatology

ISBN: 978-3-211-68584-6
Verlag: Springer, Wien

Buch, Englisch, 233 Seiten, Gewicht: 532 g

Rheumatic Diseases and Osteoporosis are very common diseases. Recently the prevalence of Arthritis among American citizens is documented with 20%. This dictionary provides a comprehensive list of common terms and definitions in clinical rheumatology and osteology. It contains systematical descriptions selected from diseases of the locomotor apparatus, including osteoporosis, and important laboratory findings with special reference to the immunological parameters, which are essential for a correct definition of rheumatologic disorders. Another focus is placed on general principles of the pharmacological treatment, including Biologicals and modern therapy. The book also provides information about the individual disorders from the field of mineral metabolism and metabolic osteopathy's, and covers basic issues of rheumatic surgery as well as general entries from the fields of physical medicine and physiotherapy, including a system of functional assessment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rovensky, Jozef

Payer, Juraj

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A.- ?1-antitrypsin.- ?-fetoprotein.- ?1-microglobulin (?1M).- ?2-macroglobulin (?2M).- Abatacept.- Abduction.- Achilles tendon.- Achillodynia.- Achondroplasia and hypochondroplasia.- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.- ACR classification criteria for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis 1987.- Action potential.- Acupuncture (AC).- Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweet's syndrome).- Acute phase proteins (APPs).- Acute phase reactants.- Acute prolapse of cervical intervertebral disc.- Acute shoulder pain.- Adduction.- Adenosine deaminase (ADA).- Adhesion.- Adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder).- Adhesive molecules.- Adjuvant.- Adson's test.- Agammaglobulinaemia.- Agonist.- Albers-Schönberg Disease.- Alendronate.- Alexander technique.- Algodystrophic syndrome (ADS).- Algometry (evaluation of pain threshold).- Alkalising agents.- Alkaptonuria and ochronosis.- Allodynia.- Allopurinol.- Alphacalcidol.- Amyloid.- Anabolic steroids.- Anaesthesia dolorosa.- Analgesia.- ANCA.- Ankylosing hyperostosis.- Ankylosing spondylitis (AS; Bechterev's disease).- Anorexia nervosa.- Antibodies.- Antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptides (Anti-CCP antibodies; anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies, ACPA).- Antibodies against Ku antigen.- Antibodies against U1RNP and Sm antigen.- Anticardiolipin antibodies.- Anticentromere antibodies.- Anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies (ACPA).- Anti-dsDNA antibodies.- Antigen presentation.- Antigen targets of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) in the cell (antibodies against intranuclear antigens).- Antihistone antibodies and antinucleosome antibodies.- Anti-idiotypic antibodies.- Anti-immunoglobulin antibodies.- Anti-Jo-1 antibodies.- Anti-La antibodies.- Antimalarial drugs.- Anti-Mi-2.- Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies.- Anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA).- Anti-PCNA/cyclin antibodies (proliferating cell nuclear antigen).- Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS).- Anti-Ro antibodies.- Anti-SRP antibodies.- Anti-SSA/Ro and anti-SSB/La antibodies.- Anti-SSB/La antibodies.- Antisynthetase syndrome.- Apoptosis.- APS.- ARA Diagnostic criteria of SLE.- Arachidonic acid.- Arthritis associated with erythema nodosum in the course of infection.- Arthritis impact measurement scale (AIMS).- Arthritis in brucellosis.- Arthritis in chronic sarcoidosis.- Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita.- Arthropathy in the course of inflammatory bowel diseases.- Arthropathy in ochronosis.- Arthropathy in thyroid disease.- Arthroscopic joint washout and cartilage.- Articular cartilage.- Aseptic necrosis of the navicular bone.- Atopic reactions.- Atrophy.- Auranofin.- Auto-antibodies.- Auto-antibodies assessed in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)-other.- Autoimmune diseases.- Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia.- Autoimmune hepatitis.- Autoimmune neutropenia.- Autoimmunity.- Autonomic nervous system (ANS).- Autotolerance.- Avascular necrosis of the lunate bone.- Axon.- Azathioprine.- B.- Baker's cyst.- Ballottement of the patella.- Balneophototherapy.- Balneotherapy (BT).- Bare lymphocytes syndrome.- Barthel's index.- Bartter's syndrome.- Basilar impression.- Bassett's current.- Bath ankylosing spondylitis indices (BAS-indices).- Bechterev's disease.- Behçet's disease.- Beighton criteria.- Beighton-Horan score.- Bence-Jones proteins (BJ-proteins).- Bicipital Tendinitis.- Bisphosphonates.- Bioengineering technologies.- Biolamp - bioptrone lamp.- Biologic drugs (BD).- Bioptrone lamp.- Birefringence (Double refraction).- Polarisation of light through birefringence.- Bobath method.- Body mass index (BMI).- Bone and Joint Decade - 2000-2010.- Bone Densitometry.- Bone Mineral Density Measurement - evaluation.- Bone Mineral Density Measurement - indications.- Bone Mineral Density Measurement - individual areas.- Bone Mineral Density Measurement - least significant change (LSC).- Bone Mineral Density Measurement - measurement errors.- Bone Mineral Density Measurement - repeat.- Bone Mineral Density (BMD) Scans.- Bone remodelling.- Bone scan