Pulmonary Involvement in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases

Description
In this book is found the information essential to diagnosing,
managing and treating the lung complications of connective tissue
diseases. This is a notoriously difficult area, which continues to
puzzle clinicians, despite the fact that these disorders are
increasingly frequent (as a result of longer survival in connective
tissue disease).

In separate chapters, the major connective tissue diseases are
reviewed, with detailed discussion of a variety of lung
abnormalities, including pleural disease, parenchymal lung disease
and pulmonary vascular disease. There are also invaluable overviews
of lung histological and CT appearances in these disorders, and a
deeply insightful chapter on drug-induced lung disease in connective
tissue disease. The emphasis in this book is on accuracy of
evaluation and the construction of a logical management plan, based
on disease severity and intrinsic progressiveness



-Contents-

Part I. Pathology.
1. Lung pathology in connective tissue diseases (D. Tansey, A.G.
Nicholson).

Part II. Radiologic investigations in connective tissue diseases.
2. High resolution computed tomography of the lungs (T. Franquet).

Part III. Pulmonary hypertension.
3. Pulmonary arterial hypertension in connective tissue disease (C.
Denton, C. Black).

Part IV. Vasculitides.
4. Wegener's granulomatosus: a pulmonary perspective (P. Lamprecht,
A. Schnabel, W.L. Gross). 5. Vasculitic syndromes other than
Wegener's granulomatosus (A. Bennett, D. D'Cruz).

Part V. Pulmonary involvement in connective tissue disorders.
6. Lung disease in lupus (A. Kao, J. Sabatine, S. Manzi). 7.
Pulmonary involvement in the anti-phospholipid syndrome (G. Espinosa
et al.). 8. Rheumatoid arthritis and the lung (J. David, S. Edmonds).
9. Sjogren's syndrome and the lung (P. Papiris, H. Moutsopoulos). 10.
Interstitial disease in systemic sclerosis (N. Goh, R. du Bois). 11.
Pulmonary complications of polymyositis and dermatomyositis (J. Deng,
M. Keane, J. Lynch III). 12. Pulmonary involvement in miscellaneous
connective tissue diseases (A. Wells, G. Davies).

Part VI. Drug-induced respiratory disease.
13. Drug induced respiratory disease in connective tissue disease (P.
Camus).