Behcet's Disease (MyModernHealth FAQs) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Behcet’s disease is a rare, vascular autoinflammatory illness that is little understood. Using a question-and-answer format – along with illustrations and photographs – this book gives easy-to-understand explanations of common patient concerns. [Companion disc files are available from the publisher with Amazon Order Number by writing to info@merclearning.com.] Detailed information is provided on causes, symptoms, complications, and treatments for Behcet’s disease. Physicians in training and/or new to the field of Behcet’s will find that included material is referenced and evidence-based, and that the book has been reviewed in advance of publication by clinicians noted in the research and treatment of Behcet’s. This book includes numerous in-text Web links to relevant information at the National Institutes of Health and other online sources. The companion disc includes informational resources and illustrations to help you better understand all of the material from the book; there are also links to international Behcet’s patient organizations and to free public-access medical journal articles about Behcet’s. FEATURES +Includes information on Behcet’s disease in the United States and Western European countries – areas not often covered in depth in other publications +Provides descriptions of diagnostic features of Behcet’s disease +Provides information on anti-TNF (and other) medications currently in use and some orphan drug treatments under development +Includes a companion disc with figures, photographs, and Web links to references in the text and other sources of information.[Companion disc files are available from the publisher with Amazon Order Number by writing to info@merclearning.com.] BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS 1: An Overview of Behcet’s Disease. 2: Behcet’s Disease around the World. 3: Diagnosis of Behcet’s Disease. 4: Oral and Genital Sores and Other Skin Lesions. 5: Eye Disease in Behcet’s. 6: Behcet’s and the Nervous System. 7: Behcet’s and the Gastrointestinal (GI) System. 8: Behcet’s and the Ears/Nose/Throat. 9: Behcet’s and the Cardiovascular System. 10: Behcet’s and the Lungs. 11: Behcet’s in Families and Children. 12: Behcet’s in Pregnancy and Postpartum. 13: Treatments for Behcet’s Disease. 14: Disability Benefits and Prognosis. 15: Miscellaneous Questions. About the CD-ROM. Index. From the Foreword… Behcet’s Disease answers 92 questions that those affected with this disorder would likely have, and it clarifies the disorder in 15 chapters. Disease variability and differences in risk between genders, ages, and populations is appropriately highlighted...What is unchanged is the author’s passion as a Behcet’s patient, researcher and advocate, to empower the reader with understanding and tools to meet and contain the challenges of this disease. Kenneth T. Calamia, MD (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine) BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS 1: An Overview of Behcet’s Disease. 2: Behcet’s Disease around the World. 3: Diagnosis of Behcet’s Disease. 4: Oral and Genital Sores and Other Skin Lesions. 5: Eye Disease in Behcet’s. 6: Behcet’s and the Nervous System. 7: Behcet’s and the Gastrointestinal (GI) System. 8: Behcet’s and the Ears/Nose/Throat. 9: Behcet’s and the Cardiovascular System. 10: Behcet’s and the Lungs. 11: Behcet’s in Families and Children. 12: Behcet’s in Pregnancy and Postpartum. 13: Treatments for Behcet’s Disease. 14: Disability Benefits and Prognosis. 15: Miscellaneous Questions. About the CD-ROM. Index. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Joanne Zeis is an active and long-standing member of the American Behcet’s Disease Association. In 2006, she received the American Medical Association’s highest national award for laypersons, the Citation for Distinguished Service, for her tireless work on behalf of BD patients. This is her third book on Behcet’s disease.