Clinical Examples in Pediatric Rheumatology / edited by Christian Huemer, Hermann Girschick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Girschick, Hermann, editor.

Huemer, Christian, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pediatrics.

Rheumatology.

Orthopedics.

Orthopaedics.

Local Subjects:

Pediatrics.

Rheumatology.

Orthopaedics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

The book provides an introduction to the differential diagnosis and decision-making in pediatric rheumatological diseases through typical and real cases. One of the aspects in the discussion of various case scenarios is the avoidance of errors and error management. The casebook is useful for specialists and trainees in pediatrics, young doctors, and anyone on the path to specialization in pediatric rheumatology. From the Content Juvenile idiopathic arthritis - Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) - Lyme arthritis - Systemic lupus erythematosus - Dermatomyositis - Scleroderma and Sharp syndrome - Kawasaki syndrome - Periodic fever syndromes - Takayasu arteritis - Behçet's disease - APLAID syndrome - Immunodeficiency diseases - Osteomyelitis - Pain amplification syndromes The Editors Prim. Univ. Prof. Dr. Christian Huemer, Specialist in Pediatrics, is the Head Physician at the State Hospital in Bregenz and leads the Pediatrics Department. Prof. Dr. Hermann Josef Girschick, Specialist in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, is the Director of the Department of Pediatrics at Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain in Berlin. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

Contents:

Tired toddler and a teenage athlete with a bad knee

14-year-old boy with pain in the spine and heel pain

16-year-old girl with swelling of three fingers

Fever, rash and joint pain - just an infection?

What to do when the immune system goes into a storm?

10-year-old girl with impaired vision

Rhinitis and arthritis - do they go together? A cold and arthritis - do they go together? - Tonsillitis - what comes next? - Worm-like movement and the tonsil was inflamed

Rheumatism and the tick: 10-year-old girl with pronounced knee joint swelling

First joint pain for weeks, then a skin rash

When the skin just won't heal

2-year-old toddler with painful bluish-livid discoloration of the hands and feet. When every movement and laughing becomes painful - When the skin becomes hard and calcified - 7-year-old girl with a fever, cough and cold - 15-year-old seriously ill girl with fever after Covid-19 infection - 7-year-old female patient with gastroenteritis and petechiae - 11-year-old patient after stem cell transplantation with headache and chest pain More than just a blocked nose

When the skin turns blue, bleeds and turns black

Repeated mouth sores

4-year-old girl with repeated episodes of fever and blisters in the mouth

When the infant does not thrive because he has a fever

Rash and many complaints due to cold

The muscle tightens hard and pain in the abdomen

Is every early childhood polio a symptom of the disease? 16-year-old boy with episodes of chills, weakness and rapid weight loss

Recurrent fever attacks, but not always an infection

When sweating and draughts repeatedly cause fever

Back pain in a schoolchild - overuse or something more? Immediate pain in the hip after sport and jumping - 15-year-old boy with episodic, pronounced back pain - Toddler with unusually early tibia fracture - A walk like Charlie Chaplin - When the skin and neck stretch 3-year-old toddler with recurrent fevers, maculopapular exanthema-polyarthritis and acute neurological symptoms

2-year-old boy with severe nocturnal leg pain

9-year-old girl with elevated body temperature, marked posture and pain in the right hip. Bone pain, suspected leukemia - and yet the blood count is unremarkable - Severe bone pain and subfebrile temperatures - osteomyelitis? - 7-year-old female patient with known leukodystrophy and skin abnormalities.

ISBN:

3-662-68732-1