The Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology, 4th edition has been fully reviewed and updated to make it into an invaluable guide for students, trainees, consultant rheumatologists, and everyone caring for patients with musculoskeletal disease. With the addition of a paediatric rheumatologist to the editor team, this new edition is a fully functional rheumatology handbook for patients from childhood to adulthood.
Practically structured, the handbook focuses first on presenting symptoms and then considers key diseases, emergencies, and rare diseases in detail. There is a comprehensive and updated account of assessment, guidelines, and treatment options. The text has been condensed with bullet points and summary boxes so the reader can focus on the essential information. To aid understanding over half of the images have been updated and the colour plate section has been expanded.
Taking a clinical, evidence-based approach, written by experts, and presented in a clear, practical, bullet-point style for rapid reference, this handbook will be your constant companion and a joy to use.
The presentation of rheumatic disease
1: Evaluating rheumatological and musculoskeletal (MSK) symptoms
2: Musculoskeletal (MSK) assessment and patterns of disease: making a working diagnosis
3: Regional Musculoskeletal Symptoms: making a working diagnosis
4: The spectrum of disorders associated with adult rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases
The clinical features and management of rheumatic disease
5: Rheumatoid arthritis
6: Osteoarthritis
7: Crystal-induced musculoskeletal disease
8: The spondyloarthritides (SpAs) including psoriatic arthritis
9: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)
10: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
11: Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)
12: Sjögren's syndrome
13: Systemic sclerosis (SScl) and related disorders
14: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies including polymyositis and dermatomyositis
15: Primary vasculitides
16: Metabolic bone diseases
17: Infection and rheumatic disease
18: Rare autoinflammatory and miscellaneous diseases
19: Hereditary disorders of connective tissue (HDCT)
20: Common upper limb musculoskeletal lesions
21: Spinal disorders and back pain
22: Chronic pain syndromes
Medicine management and emergencies
23: Drugs used in rheumatology practice
24: Glucocorticoid injection therapy
25: Rheumatological emergenciesenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Having grown up in Cardiff, he graduated from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 2003, and then undertook clinical training in rheumatology and general internal medicine in Bath and Bristol between 2007 - 2015. He completed his PhD thesis on 'biomarkers of psoriatic arthritis phenotypes at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases (Bath, UK) in 2015.
Contributors:
Dr Gavin Clunie
Consultant Rheumatologist, The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
Dr Emma Davies
Speciality trainee, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK
Dr Catherine Fairris
Speciality trainee, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK
Dr Shabina Habibi
Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK
Dr Alan Hakim
Consultant Rheumatologist and Acute Physician, Whipps Cross Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, UK
Dr Philip Hamann
Rheumatology Registrar, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK
Professor Inam Haq
Consultant Rheumatologist, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, UK
Dr Ei Phyu Htut
Specialist Registrar in Rheumatology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Dr Anthony Isaacs
Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist, Northwick Park and St Mark's Hospital, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, UK
Dr Deepak Jadon
Consultant Rheumatologist , Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Dr Elena Nikiphorou
Consultant Rheumatologist , Whittington Health NHS Trust, London, UK
Dr Elizabeth Reilly
Speciality trainee, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK
Dr Natasha Weisz
Chief Medical Registrar, Cairns Base Hospital, Australia
Dr Nick Wilkinson
Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist, Evelina London Children's Hospital, UK
Dr Cee Yi Yong
Registrar in Rheumatology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Edited by Gavin Clunie, Consultant Rheumatologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK, Nick Wilkinson, Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK, Elena Nikiphorou, Consultant Rheumatologist and Clinical Researcher, Whittington Health NHS Trust and King's College London, UK, and Deepak Jadon, Consultant Rheumatologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Dr Clunie is consultant rheumatologist and metabolic bone physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge (since 2012) and trustee of the British Society of Rheumatology. He was Rheumatologist in Ipswich, where he set up the first English Fracture Liaison Service in Ipswich. The service has become a model for FLSs in many places worldwide. Dr Clunie's subspecialty interests are rare bone diseases and Spondyloarthritis.
Dr Wilkinson is the George Koukis Lead for the paediatric rheumatology and paediatric chronic pain services at the Evelina London Children's Hospital, which he set up in 2014 to serve South London and South East Coastal Region of England. Prior to this he set up similar tertiary services for Thames Valley when he joined the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford in 2005 bringing his experience from working in Vancouver, Sydney and several centres across the UK. He continues to take many lead roles across national societies and charities in these areas of medicine, with a particular interest in adolescent and young adult care, chronic pain and paediatric sports and exercise medicine.
Dr Nikiphorou is a consultant rheumatologist at the Whittington Hospital in London and a clinical academic at the Academic Rheumatology department of King's College London. Her clinical and research interests focus on inflammatory arthritis, multimorbidity and patient reported outcomes. Dr Nikiphorou has a number of national and international roles and responsibilities, including being a member of the British Society of Rheumatology Heberden Committee and the Chair of the largest network of young rheumatologists in Europe (EMEUNET).
Dr Jadon is a consultant rheumatologist, Director of the Rheumatology Research Unit, and lead for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) at Add