The Washington Manual Subspeciality Consult Series- Rheumatology, 3/e

The Washington Manual Subspecialty Consult Series: Rheumatology continues to be an excellent primary reference for medical students, interns, residents, and other practitioners who need ready access to practical clinical information to diagnose and treat patients with a wide variety of autoimmune and rheumatologic disorders. Medical knowledge continues to increase at an astounding rate, which creates a challenge for physicians to keep up with the biomedical discoveries, genomic and immunologic advances, and novel therapeutics that can positively impact patient outcomes. The rheumatology subspecialty consult addresses this challenge by concisely and practically providing current scientific information for clinicians to aid them in the diagnosis, investigation, and treatment of autoimmune and rheumatologic diseases.

Key features

• An excellent primary reference for medical students, interns, residents, and other practitioners
• Access to clinical information to diagnose & treat patients with autoimmune disorders.
• Offers practical clinical information to diagnose & treat patients with rheumatologic disorders.
• Scientific information for diagnosis & treatment of autoimmune & rheumatologic diseases.

About the editors

María C. González-Mayda, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.

Prabha Ranganathan, Rheumatologist, Saint Louis, Missouri, and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital.