Contributors
Preface
SECTION I
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN HEALTH AND
DISEASE
1 Introduction to the Immune System
2 The Major Histocompatibility Complex
3 Autoimmunity and Autoimmune Diseases
SECTION II
DISORDERS OF IMMUNE-MEDIATED INJURY
4 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
5 Antiphospholipid Syndrome
6 Rheumatoid Arthritis
7 Acute Rheumatic Fever
8 Systemic Sclerosis (Scleroderma) and Related Disorders
9 Sj?gren’s Syndrome
10 The Spondyloarthritides
11 The Vasculitis Syndromes
12 Beh?et’s Syndrome
13 Relapsing Polychondritis
14 Sarcoidosis
15 IgG4-Related Disease
16 Familial Mediterranean Fever and Other Hereditary Autoinflammatory Disease
17 Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Inclusion Body Myositis
18 Approach to Articular and Musculoskeletal Disorders
19 Osteoarthritis
20 Gout and Other Crystal-Associated Arthropathies
21 Infectious Arthritis
22 Fibromyalgia
23 Arthritis Associated with Systemic Disease,and Other Arthritides
24 Periarticular Disorders of the Extremities
Appendix
Review and Self-Assessment
Index