PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY. A CLINICAL VIEWPOINT

• Part I: Introduction to Pediatric Rheumatology
1. History of Pediatric Rheumatology
2. Basic Immunology for the Pediatrician
3. Genetics of Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases
4. Human Joint Anatomy and Physiology
5. Epidemiology of Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases
6. Trial Dezign and Collaborative Work in Pediatric Rheumatology
7. Non Biologic Drugs in Rheumatology
8. Biologic Response Modifiers in Pediatric Rheumatology
9. Clinical Examination of the Child with a Rheumatic Disease
10. Laboratory and the Pediatric Rheumatologist
11. Imaging in Pediatric Rheumatology
12. Transition: Moving from Pediatric to Adult Rheumatology Care
13. Outcome measures in Pediatric Rheumatology
• Part II: Arthritis in Childhood
14. Approach to a Child with Joint Pains
15. Approach to a Child with a Limp
16. Common Orthopedic Problems in Children
17. Overview of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
18. Systemic Onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
19. Juvenile Spondyloarthropathies
20. Management of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
21. Infections and Arthritis in Childhood
22. Macrophage Activation Syndrome
23. Clinical Case Vignettes: Arthritis in Children
• Part III: Connective Tissue Diseases in Childhood
24. Connective Tissue Diseases in Childhood: An Approach to the Diagnosis and Classification
25. Pediatric and Neonatal Lupus
26. Pediatric Lupus Nephritis
27. Juvenile Dermatomyositis
28. Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome in Childhood
29. Juvenile Localized Scleroderma
30. Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis
31. Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease, Mixed Connective Tissue Disease and Overlap Syndromes in Children
32. Clinical Case Vignettes : Connective Tissue Diseases in Children
• Part IV: Vasculitis in Childhood
33. Pediatric Vasculitis: Classification and Clinical Approach
34. Henoch Schnolein Purpura
35. Kawasaki Disease
36. Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis in Children
37. Childhood Polyarteritis Nodosa
38. Behcets Disease
39. Pediatric Takayasu arteritis
40. Childhood Central Nervous System Vasculitis
41. Cogans Syndrome and other Vasculitides in Children
42. Clinical Case Vignettes: Childhood Vasculitis
• Part V: Miscellaneous Rheumatic Diseases in Childhood
43. Autoinflammatory syndromes in children
44. Metabolic bone disease and osteoporosis in children
45. Joint Hypermobility and Pain Syndromes in Children
46. Childhood Sarcoidosis
47. Rheumatic Manifestations of Genetic Disorders and Hemophilia
48. Immunodeficency and Rheumatic Diseases
49. Pediatric Uveitis.

This book on rheumatology in children is intended to be a handy tool for all professionals interested in this field. It is divided into five sections: General considerations, arthritic problems, connective tissue diseases, systemic vasculitides and finally a section that covers miscellaneous issues such as Immunodeficiencies, bone heath and uveitis.
The book has an easy format with each chapter having one or more clinicalvignettes at the start of the chapter. In addition each chapter outlines the learning objectives and key take home messages. At the end of each section a collection of cases to highlight important issues in the clinic are included. The colorful charts, pictures and tables make reading this book an easy task.
The authors are leading experts in their fields working at best practices centers globally to provide the reader with state-of-the-art information.

Features
• Covers established core content to aid understanding of the subject
• Written with a case-based approach to simulate clinical settings
• Includes learning objectives, take home messages to support teaching

Authors
• Dr Sujata Sawhney (MD, MRCP (UK), CCST (UK)) is a graduate of Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India, and did her MD in Pediatrics from Delhi University. She is specialized in Pediatric Rheumatology at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London where she completed her MRCP and on completion of training was awarded the Completion Certificate of Specialist Training (CCST). She is currently based at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India, where she heads the Pediatric Rheumatology Division at the Institute of Child Health. She is the co- editor of the book ‘Rheumatic diseases in women and children: Current perspectives’ (2014),and has over thirty publications in peer- reviewed journals and as textbook chapters. She runs a post-doctoral fellowship program at her center, and has been the past president of the Pediatric Rheumatology Society of India.
• Dr Amita Aggarwal (MD, DM, FNASc, FASc, FAMS) graduated from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She is a Professor of Clinical Immunology at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. She has more than 250 peer-reviewed publications to her credit. She has been involved in research on rheumatic diseases especially juvenile idiopathic arthritis for the last two decades. She has been awarded the DBT biosciences award for career development and multiple awards from Indian Council of Medical Research. She is currently the President of the Indian Rheumatology Association.