Translational Autoimmunity, Volume 4

Autoimmune Diseases in Different Organs
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-12-824466-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

As the autoimmune diseases could affect different organs, Translational Autoimmunity: Autoimmune Diseases in Different Organs addresses the spectrum of autoimmune diseases. The fourth volume of Translational Immunology Series focuses on clinical and laboratory details of autoimmune diseases which are broadly categorized into two types of organ-specific autoimmune diseases and non-organ specific autoimmune diseases (also known as systemic autoimmune diseases). Autoimmune rheumatic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune rheumatic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and thyroid diseases, autoimmune neurologic diseases such as multiple sclerosis, as well as autoimmune hepatobiliary diseases, autoimmune renal diseases and autoimmune cutaneous diseases as the subject of discussion in Translational Autoimmunity: Autoimmune Diseases in Different Organs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rezaei, Nima

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Immunologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction on autoimmune diseases 2. Autoimmune polyendocrinopathies in pediatric age 3. Autoimmune thyroid diseases: peculiarities in pediatric age 4. TSH receptor autoantibodies in Graves' disease 5. The heterogeneity of autoimmune responses in type 1 diabetes mellitus: from immunopathology to immune intervention 6. Pathophysiology of autoimmune orbital diseases and target therapy for orbital Inflammatory and neoplastic diseases 7. Autoimmune uveitis in childhood 8. Autoimmune inner ear disease 9. Autoimmune heart disease 10. Autoimmunity and its correlation to inflammatory vascular diseases 11. Cryoglobulinemic Vasculitis 12. Immunologic and clinical features of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis 13. Autoimmune pulmonary disease 14. Innate immunity and inflammatory bowel diseases: Pathway paradigms, from bench to bedside 15. Autoimmunity of the liver 16. Advances in autoimmune cutaneous diseases 17. Pathogenesis-based treatments in bullous pemphigoid 18. Autoinflammatory disorders

Über Autor(innen)

Rezaei, Nima
Professor Nima Rezaei gained his medical degree (MD) from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and subsequently obtained an MSc in Molecular and Genetic Medicine and a PhD in Clinical Immunology and Human Genetics from the University of Sheffield, UK. He also spent a short-term fellowship of Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation in the Newcastle General Hospital. Professor Rezaei is now the Full Professor of Immunology and Vice Dean of Research, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and the co-founder and Head of the Research Center for Immunodeficiencies. He is also the founding President of the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN). Professor Rezaei has already been the Director of more than 55 research projects and has designed and participated in several international collaborative projects. Professor Rezaei is an editorial assistant or board member for more than 30 international journals. He has edited more than 35 international books, has presented more than 500 lectures/posters in congresses/meetings, and has published more than 1,000 scientific papers in the international journals.