Table of Contents:
  • Physical examination of the musculoskeletal system
  • Joint aspiration & injection
  • Laboratory diagnosis
  • Approach to the patient with arthritis
  • Approach to the adolescent with arthritis
  • The patient with hand, wrist, or elbow pain
  • Approach to the patient with ankle & foot pain
  • Approach to the painful shoulder
  • Approach to the patient with neck pain
  • Approach to the patient with low back pain
  • The patient with hip pain
  • Approach to the patient with knee pain
  • The patient with diffuse pain
  • Pregnancy & rheumatic diseases
  • Rheumatoid arthritis: the disease, diagnosis and clinical features
  • Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
  • Ankylosing spondylitis and the arthritis of inflammatory bowel disease
  • Reactive arthritis
  • Psoriatic arthritis
  • Adult still disease
  • Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
  • Systematic lupus erythematosus
  • Treatment of systematic lupus erythematosus
  • Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
  • Raynaud phenomenon
  • Scleroderma
  • Primary sjögren syndrome
  • Polymyositis & dermatomyositis
  • Relapsing polychondritis
  • Introduction to vasculitis: classification & clinical clues
  • Giant cell arteries & polymyalgia rheumatica
  • Takayasu arteries
  • Wegener granulomatosis
  • Microscopic polyangiitis
  • Churg-Strauss syndrome
  • Polyarteritis nodosa
  • Mixed cryoglobulinemia
  • Hypersensitivity vasculitis
  • Behçet disease
  • Henoch-Schönlein purpura
  • Vasculitis of the central nervous system
  • Buerger disease
  • Miscellaneous forms of vasculitis
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Gout
  • Pseudogout: calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition disease
  • Septic arthritis & disseminated gonococcal infection
  • Lyme disease
  • Mycobacterial & fungal infections of bone & joints
  • Rheumatic manifestations of acute & chronic viral arthritis
  • Evaluation of rheumatic complaints in patients with HIV
  • Rheumatic fever
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Endocrine & metabolic disorders
  • Rheumatic manifestations of malignancy
  • Amyloidosis
  • Osteoporosis & glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis
  • Osteonecrosis
  • Common rheumatologic problems encountered by the hospitalist: pearls & myths
  • Approach to the patient with a painful prosthetic joint
  • The patient with a red eye
  • Common injuries from running
  • Complex regional pain syndromes: reflex sympathetic dystrophy & causalgia
  • Sensorineural hearing loss (immune-mediated inner ear disease)
  • Legal issues
  • Complementary & alternative therapies
  • Medications