For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Rheumatology Secrets, 5th Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style-making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.
The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time-succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective Fully revised and updated throughout, offering practical coverage of basic immunology and pathophysiology, important disease manifestations, and clinical management issues related to common and uncommon rheumatic disorders, including a new chapter on IgG4-related disease Keeps you up to date with new techniques and technologies, as well as changing treatment options and drug information Helps ensure mastery of the material with more than 100 board-style questions available online that provide effective review and quick practice for your exams Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
Edited by:
Jason Kolfenbach (Associate Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine Division of Rheumatology University of Colorado School of Medicine Aurora Colorado USA),
Sterling G. West,
MD,
MACR,
MACP (Professor of Medicine,
Department of Medicine,
Division of Rheumatology,
University of Colorado School of Medicine,
Aurora,
Colorado,
USA)
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 5th edition
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 1.100kg
ISBN: 9780443127946
ISBN 10: 0443127948
Series: Secrets
Pages: 896
Publication Date: 15 December 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
SECTION I General Concepts CHAPTER 1 Top 100+ Rheumatology Secrets CHAPTER 2 Classification and Health Impact of the Rheumatic Diseases CHAPTER 3 Anatomy and Physiology of the Musculoskeletal System CHAPTER 4 An Overview of the Immune Response, Inflammation, and Autoimmunity SECTION II Evaluation of the Patient With Rheumatic Symptoms CHAPTER 5 History and Physical Examination CHAPTER 6 Laboratory Evaluation CHAPTER 7 Arthrocentesis, Synovial Fluid Analysis, and Synovial Biopsy CHAPTER 8 Radiographic and Imaging Modalities CHAPTER 9 Electromyography and Nerve Conduction Studies CHAPTER 10 Approach for Patients With Monoarticular Arthritis Symptoms CHAPTER 11 Approach for Patients With Polyarticular Arthritis Symptoms CHAPTER 12 Approach to the Patient With Neuromuscular Symptoms CHAPTER 13 Perioperative Management of Patients With Rheumatic Diseases SECTION III Systemic Connective Tissue Diseases CHAPTER 14 Rheumatoid Arthritis CHAPTER 15 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus CHAPTER 16 Drug-Induced Lupus Erythematosus CHAPTER 17 Systemic Sclerosis CHAPTER 18 Scleroderma Mimics CHAPTER 19 Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies CHAPTER 20 Mixed Connective Tissue Disease, Overlap Syndromes, and Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease CHAPTER 21 Sjögren Disease CHAPTER 22 Antiphospholipid Syndrome CHAPTER 23 Adult-Onset Still’s Disease CHAPTER 24 Polymyalgia Rheumatica SECTION IV The Vasculitides and Related Disorders CHAPTER 25 Approach for Patients With Suspected Vasculitis CHAPTER 26 Large-Vessel Vasculitis: Giant Cell Arteritis, Takayasu Arteritis, and Aortitis CHAPTER 27 Polyarteritis Nodosa, Thromboangiitis Obliterans, and Primary Central Nervous System Vasculitis CHAPTER 28 Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis CHAPTER 29 Immune Complex-Mediated Small-Vessel Vasculitides CHAPTER 30 Cryoglobulinemia CHAPTER 31 Behçet Syndrome CHAPTER 32 Relapsing Polychondritis SECTION V Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies CHAPTER 33 Axial Spondyloarthritis CHAPTER 34 Rheumatic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Diseases CHAPTER 35 Reactive Arthritis CHAPTER 36 Arthritis Associated With Psoriasis and Other Skin Diseases SECTION VI Arthritis Associated With Infectious Agents CHAPTER 37 Bacterial Septic Arthritis, Bursitis, and Osteomyelitis CHAPTER 38 Lyme Disease CHAPTER 39 Mycobacterial and Fungal Joint and Bone Diseases CHAPTER 40 Viral Arthritides CHAPTER 41 HIV-Associated Rheumatic Syndromes CHAPTER 42 Whipple Disease CHAPTER 43 Acute Rheumatic Fever and Poststreptococcal Arthritis SECTION VII Rheumatic Disorders Associated With Metabolic, Endocrine, and Hematologic Diseases CHAPTER 44 Gout CHAPTER 45 Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease CHAPTER 46 Basic Calcium Phosphate and Other Crystalline Diseases CHAPTER 47 Endocrine-Associated Arthropathies CHAPTER 48 Arthropathies Associated With Hematologic Diseases CHAPTER 49 Malignancy-Associated Rheumatic Disorders SECTION VIII Bone and Cartilage Disorders CHAPTER 50 Osteoarthritis CHAPTER 51 Metabolic Bone Disease CHAPTER 52 Paget Disease of Bone CHAPTER 53 Osteonecrosis SECTION IX Hereditary, Congenital, and Inborn Errors of Metabolism Associated With Rheumatic Syndromes CHAPTER 54 Heritable Connective Tissue Diseases CHAPTER 55 Inborn Errors of Metabolism Affecting Connective Tissue CHAPTER 56 Storage and Deposition Diseases CHAPTER 57 Rheumatologic Manifestations of the Primary Immunodeficiency Syndromes CHAPTER 58 Skeletal Dysplasias SECTION X Nonarticular and Regional Musculoskeletal Disorders CHAPTER 59 Approach for the Patient With Neck and Low Back Pain CHAPTER 60 Fibromyalgia CHAPTER 61 Regional Musculoskeletal Disorders CHAPTER 62 Sports Medicine and Occupational Injuries CHAPTER 63 Entrapment Neuropathies CHAPTER 64 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome SECTION XI Neoplasms and Tumor-like Lesions CHAPTER 65 Benign and Malignant Tumors of Joints and Synovium CHAPTER 66 Common Bony Lesions: Radiographic Features SECTION XII Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases CHAPTER 67 Approach to the Child With Joint Pain CHAPTER 68 Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis CHAPTER 69 Juvenile Systemic Connective Tissue Diseases and Vasculitides CHAPTER 70 Kawasaki Disease SECTION XIII Miscellaneous Rheumatic Disorders CHAPTER 71 Genetic Muscle Diseases: Metabolic and Other Genetic Muscle Disorders CHAPTER 72 Amyloidosis CHAPTER 73 Raynaud’s Phenomenon CHAPTER 74 Autoimmune Eye and Ear Disorders CHAPTER 75 Rheumatic Syndromes Associated With Sarcoidosis CHAPTER 76 IgG4-Related Disease CHAPTER 77 Rheumatic Disorders in Patients on Dialysis CHAPTER 78 Rheumatic Disease and the Pregnant Patient CHAPTER 79 Autoinflammatory Syndromes CHAPTER 80 Odds and Ends SECTION XIV Management of the Rheumatic Diseases CHAPTER 81 Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs CHAPTER 82 Glucocorticoids-Systemic and Injectable CHAPTER 83 DMARDs: csDMARDs and tsDMARDs CHAPTER 84 Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs: Biologic Agents CHAPTER 85 Immunosuppressive and Immunoregulatory Agents CHAPTER 86 Hypouricemic Agents and Colchicine CHAPTER 87 Bone Strengthening Agents CHAPTER 88 Rehabilitative Techniques CHAPTER 89 Surgical Treatment and Rheumatic Diseases CHAPTER 90 Disability SECTION XV Final Secrets CHAPTER 91 Complementary and Alternative Medicine CHAPTER 92 History, the Arts, and Rheumatic Diseases
