Interdisciplinary Rheumatology

About this book

Twelve chapters from the University of Chicago and other centres on how rheumatic diseases affect the gut. After an approach to the patient and a primer on GI imaging and testing, separate chapters cover rheumatoid arthritis and Sjögren's, ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis, enteric arthritis, lupus, scleroderma and myositis, and vasculitis. Later chapters deal with nutrition, the GI effects of rheumatological drugs, the joint effects of GI drugs, and future joint working. Written for rheumatologists and gastroenterologists who share patients with autoimmune disease.