The Spondylarthritides

A comprehensive up-to-date review by an internationally recognized group of clinicians and investigators...The layout of the book is well-balanced and both the clinical aspects and the basic research are well reviewed...Overall, this book is highly recommended for clinicians, both the rheumatologists and the non-rheumatologists, as well as the immunogeneticists and other research scientists interested in spondyloarthritides.

• Terminology introduction, diagnostic criteria and overview ; A worldwide overview: The epidemiology of HLA-B27 and associated spondylarthritides ; Ankylosing spondylitis ; Clinical aspects ; Reative arthritis and Reiter's syndrome - the clinical spectrum ; Enteric infections and arthritis: Clinical aspects ; Chlamydia-induced arthritis ; Psoriatic arthritis and spondylitis: A clinical approach ; The eye in spondylarthritis ; Enteric infections and arthritis: Bacteriological aspects ; HLA-B27, ankylosing spondylitis, an the spondyloarthropathies ; Mechanisms of arthritis associatied with chronic intestinal inflammations ; Animal models of the spondyloarthropathies ; Disease and outcome indices/instruments for the spondyloarthropathies ; Ankylosing spondyltis - the patients point of view ; HLA-B27 subtypes, disease susceptability and peptide binding specificity ; References ; Index