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The heart in systemic autoimmune diseases /

This first volume represents the state-of-the-art in the field of cardiovascular disease and autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Systemic autoimmune diseases comprise a family of conditions that share common pathogenetic mechanisms as well as a multi-organ involvement including the heart. This volume has...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Doria, A. (Andrea), Pauletto, Paolo, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Handbook of systemic autoimmune diseases ; v. 1.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Immune and autoimmune mechanisms involved in cardiac damage.
  • Cellular immunity: A role for cytokines (D-L. Fearweather, M. Afanasyeva, N.R. Rose). Humoral immunity: Organ-specific autoimmunity involvement in cardiovascular disease (A.L.P. Caforio, F. Tona, W.J. McKenna). Humoral immunity: Non-organ specific autoimmunity (P. Riboldi, M. Gerosa et al.). Pathogenesis of Anti-SSA/Ro-SSB/La associated congenital heart block (R.M. Clancy, J.P. Buyon).
  • Part II. Immune mechanisms involved in atherosclerosis.
  • Innate immunity, inflammation, and atherogenesis (M. Rattazzi, Y. Shoenfeld, P. Pauletto). Atherosclerosis and autoimmunity (Y. Sherer, Y. Shoenfeld). Statins and autoimmunity (V.S. Gurevich).
  • Part III. Cardiac involvement in autoimmune connective tissue diseases.
  • Cardiac imaging techniques in systemic autoimmune diseases (M. Turiel, P. Sarzi-Puttini, R. Cervera). Cardiac involvement in rheumatoid arthritis (N.T. Goodson). Cardiac involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (A. Doria, M. Petri). Neonatal lupus syndrome: clinical features (A. Brucato, J. Buyon). The heart in scleroderma (G. Coghlan, C. Denton). Autoimmune myositis and overlap syndrome (I. Lundberg). Cardiac involvement in the antiphospholipid syndrome (D.
  • Erkan, M. Roman et al.). Vasculitis (C. Pagnoux, L. Boiardi et al.).