The third edition of this definitive and highly-regarded reference work provides a comprehensive review of vasculitis, a fascinating array of life-threatening and minor conditions caused by inflammatory syndromes and diseases that affect the blood vessels. The text uniquely brings together concepts from both the biological and clinical aspects of vasculitis. Research in clinical immunology now invigorates the entire area of vasculitis and shapes a rational approach to pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment, which is the substance of this text. Over 40 chapters cover known vasculitic conditions, and are illustrated with over 250 full-colour photographs of clinical and pathologic findings, diagrams, and tables. Separate sections are devoted to basic science, clinical manifestations commonly seen in vasculitis, imaging and percutaneous interventions, individual diseases and syndromes, as well as conditions which can mimic vasculitis. Many of the conditions are rare, and it is the exceptional clinician who has much experience with more than a few of these; thus, the invaluable experience of the international team of authors makes this edition truly indispensible.
Now in the Oxford Textbooks in Rheumatology series, this new edition of Vasculitis is published with a concurrent online version, which features access to the full content of the textbook, contains links from the references to primary research journal articles, allows full text searches, and provides access to figures and tables that can be downloaded to PowerPointRG.
This volume is the definitive reference for rheumatologists, clinical immunologists, and general internists, and will also be of interest to dermatologists, gastroenterologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, nephrologists, neurologists, pathologists, vascular surgeons, and pediatricians.

Review

“This comprehensive book is unique with its beautiful illustrations, color photographs of clinical and biopsy findings, tables and diagrams, and fully serves its purpose as a reference guide to vasculitis.” Weighted Numerical Score: 100 – 5 Stars! —Doody’s Health Sciences Book Review

About the Author

Gene V. Ball, Jane Knight Lowe Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA,Barri J. Fessler, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA,S. Louis Bridges, Jr., Marguerite Jones Harbert-Gene V. Ball, MD Professor of Medicine; Professor of Microbiology; Director,, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Contents

CHAPTER 1 Nomenclature and classification of vasculitic syndromes
CHAPTER 2 Epidemiology of vasculitis
CHAPTER 3 Hypersensitivity
CHAPTER 4 Biology of endothelial cells
CHAPTER 5 Complement in vasculitis
CHAPTER 6 Autoantibodies in vasculitis
CHAPTER 7 Pathogenesis of vasculitis
CHAPTER 8 Animal models of vasculitis
CHAPTER 9 Pathological features of vasculitis
CHAPTER 10 Cutaneous manifestations of vasculitis
CHAPTER 11 Ocular manifestations of systemic vasculitis
CHAPTER 12 Cardiopulmonary manifestations of vasculitis
CHAPTER 13 Vasculitic neuropathy
CHAPTER 14 Vasculitic manifestations in the gastrointestinal tract
CHAPTER 15 Renal manifestations
CHAPTER 16 Digital ischaemia and Raynaud’s phenomenon
CHAPTER 17 Angiography and percutaneous interventions
CHAPTER 18 Cross-sectional imaging in vasculitis
CHAPTER 19 PET imaging in vasculitis
CHAPTER 20 Approach to the diagnosis of vasculitis in adult patients
CHAPTER 21 Vasculitis in infancy, childhood,and adolescence
CHAPTER 22 Assessment of disease activity and damage
CHAPTER 23 Giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica
CHAPTER 24 Takayasu’s arteritis
CHAPTER 25 Polyarteritis nodosa
CHAPTER 26 Microscopic polyangiitis
CHAPTER 27 Cutaneous polyarteritis
CHAPTER 28 Kawasaki’s disease
CHAPTER 29 Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener’s granulomatosis): pathogenesis
CHAPTER 30 Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener’s granulomatosis): clinical and immunodiagnostic aspects
CHAPTER 31 Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener’s granulomatosis): treatment
CHAPTER 32 Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss syndrome)
CHAPTER 33 Vasculitis in primary connective tissue diseases
CHAPTER 34 Behget’s syndrome: pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and treatment
CHAPTER 35 Juvenile Behget’s syndrome
CHAPTER 36 Vasculitis of the central nervous system
CHAPTER 37 Thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger’s disease)
CHAPTER 38 Cutaneous small-vessel vasculitis
CHAPTER 39 IgA vasculitis (Henoch-Schonlein purpura)
CHAPTER 40 Cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis
CHAPTER 41 Miscellaneous forms of vasculitis
CHAPTER 42 Experimental therapies for vasculitis
CHAPTER 43 Antiphospholipid syndrome
CHAPTER 44 Imitators of vasculitis