Main description:

Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations provides a detailed overview of conditions associated with autoimmune diseases that are considered either life-threatening or requiring complex management. These include abdominal pain, arthritis, cutaneous ulcers, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, epilepsy, pancreatitis, stroke and white-matter CNS lesions.

Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations addresses the latest clinical and immunological prognostic factors that may help to identify patients at higher risk of developing potentially life-threatening involvement. This book comprehensively helps the reader to diagnose these patients, in whom an early therapeutic approach is essential.

Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations is a valuable reference tool for rheumatologists, internists, immunologists, and all the specialists involved in the multidisciplinary care of patient with rheumatic and systemic autoimmune diseases.

Contents:

Assessment and Management of the Rheumatological Patient on the Critical Care Unit .-Life-threatening Complications of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.- Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome.- Complex Situations in Rheumatoid Arthritis.-Sjoegren's Syndrome: Beyond Sicca Involvement.- Systemic Sclerosis: Severe Involvement of Internal Organs.- Vasculitic Emergencies in Patients with Large-vessel Vasculitides.- Life-threatening Presentations of ANCA-related Vasculitis.- Severe Polyarteritis Nodosa.-Life-threatening Cryoglobulinemia.- Behcet Disease: Clinical Presentations Affecting Prognosis and Survival.- Myositis: When Weakness Can Kill.- Complicated Sarcoidosis: Challenges in Dealing with Severe Manifestations.- Complex Situations in Patients with Adult-onset Still's Disease.- Managing Acute and Complex Dermatological Situations.- Life-threatening Autoimmune Haematological Disorders.- Autoimmune Ear, Nose and Throat Emergencies.- Ophthalmological Emergencies in Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases.- Emergencies for the Vascular Surgeon.- Complicated Pregnancy in Patients with Autoimmune Systemic Diseases.- The Complex Management of Viral-related Autoimmune Diseases.- The Role of Intravenous Immunoglobulins in the Management of Acute Complex Autoimmune Conditions.-Life-threatening Complications of Biological Therapies