Description

Rheumatology is a branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and therapy of rheumatic diseases. Physicians who have undergone formal training in rheumatology are called rheumatologists. Rheumatic diseases affect your joints, tendons, ligaments, bones, and muscles. Among them are many types of arthritis, a term used for conditions that affect your joints. Sometimes they are called musculoskeletal diseases. This is a unique book which emphasizes the clinical evidence-based approach to Rheumatology. Based on the content of this book, it provides practical guidelines to the management and diagnosis of patients with acute and chronic musculoskeletal diseases. It includes information on an expanded number of conditions and the new biological therapies used in the treatment of inflammatory arthritis and connective tissue diseases. It contains excellent figures, tables, and photographs. The book has been compiled with different chapters based on the original research work by eminent academicians and scientists which focus on the latest developments in this branch. The aim of this book is to help the rheumatologists and students so that they can understand well this branch.