Editors:
- Provides a practically applicable information ideal for clinical application
- Features guidance on multisystem aspects of systemic sclerosis
- Contains up to date clinical items ideal for direct application in clinical practice
Part of the book series: In Clinical Practice (ICP)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
​Practical Management of Systemic Sclerosis in Clinical Practice describes a range of problems and clinical items encountered by a variety of medical professionals who encounter these patients. It is a valuable resource for rheumatologists, immunologists, specialist nurses and primary care professionals.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
Marco Matucci-Cerinic
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University College London, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
Christopher P. Denton
About the editors
Marco Matucci-Cerinic is Professor of Rheumatology at the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine of the University of Florence. Dr Matucci-Cerinic has published more than 900 peer review manuscripts widely in the field of rheumatology, particularly on the pathogenesis, clinical features and treatment of scleroderma, on spondyloarthritis and on osteoarthtritis. Dr Matucci-Cerinic has served as EULAR General Secretary and as Chairman of the EULAR Scleroderma Trial and Research Group (EUSTAR). He is currently chairman of the World Scleroderma Foundation and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Scleroderma & Related Diseases. He is also Associate Editor of Arthritis Research & Therapy and Clinical & Experimental Rheumatology, past Associate Editor and Co-Editor of Rheumatology. He serves on the boards of Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Rheumatology, Journal of Rheumatology, Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal diseases and other rheumatology journals.
Professor Denton studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital in London and obtained a PhD from University College London and trained in connective tissue diseases in London. Following a Wellcome Trust Advanced Fellowship in molecular genetics at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA he was an Arthritis Research UK Senior Research Fellow 2000-2010. He is Professor of Experimental Rheumatology at UCL and a consultant Rheumatologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He has published extensively on laboratory and clinical aspects of connective tissue disease. He leads a large clinical and translational research programme in scleroderma at the Royal Free Hospital and co-ordinates multidisciplinary care for more than 1500 patients. He currently chairs the UK Scleroderma Study Group (UKSSG).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical Management of Systemic Sclerosis in Clinical Practice
Editors: Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Christopher P. Denton
Series Title: In Clinical Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53736-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53735-7Published: 19 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53736-4Published: 18 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2199-6652
Series E-ISSN: 2199-6660
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 399
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Rheumatology, Immunology, Primary Care Medicine, Nephrology, Gastroenterology