Testing and Diagnosis of Rheumatic Immune Diseases

Author: Lin Xiangyang et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book is one of the series on laboratory diagnosis of common diseases, serving as a practical medical manual on the laboratory diagnosis of rheumatic and immunologic diseases. The book is divided into two parts: General Principles and Specific Diseases. It covers topics such as an introduction to rheumatic and immunologic diseases, laboratory diagnosis of rheumatic and immunologic diseases, diffuse connective tissue diseases, spondyloarthropathies, vasculitis syndromes, etc., and is suitable for medical professionals as a reference and learning tool. Due to the fact that many laboratory tests for rheumatic diseases introduced in this volume, such as autoantibodies and acute-phase response proteins, hold certain value for various rheumatic diseases, and the detection methods for these items share similarities, this volume is specially arranged into two parts. The first part primarily introduces an overview of rheumatic and immunologic diseases and a general discussion of laboratory tests, including detection methods, standards, reference ranges, and evaluations of clinical diagnostic and methodological values. The second part separately covers the pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and classification (diagnostic criteria) standards of common rheumatic diseases, with a focus on the diagnostic value of relevant laboratory tests for these diseases.