Overview
- Provides a systematic survey of local treatments, and their side effects, in inflammatory joint
- Focuses especially on radiosynoviorthesis and its complications
- Explains possible treatment strategies
- Critically reviews radiation safety considerations
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Histopathology and Non-radioactive Treatment of Synovitis
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Radiosynoviorthesis – Possible Side Effects and Complications
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents a systematic survey of different local treatments in inflammatory joint diseases and their potential side effects and complications. Both surgical therapies and pharmaceutical strategies involving local or systemic application of anti-inflammatory and immunomodulating drugs are addressed. Special emphasis is placed on nuclear medicine therapy by intra-articular instillation of beta radiation emitters, known as radiosynoviorthesis or radiation synovectomy. Possible complications, in particular radionecrosis, infection, and thromboembolism, are described and available treatment strategies are examined in detail. In addition, radiation safety considerations are critically reviewed and relevant clinical questions are discussed.
While radiosynoviorthesis is an effective and safe treatment if a proper indication is secured and if the application is performed by an experienced nuclear medicine physician, local complications can never be excluded with certainty. This book will support physicians who are engaged in the care and treatment of patients with inflammatory joint disease, approximately 30,000 of whom undergo radiosynoviorthesis in Europe each year.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Local Treatment of Inflammatory Joint Diseases
Book Subtitle: Benefits and Risks
Editors: Willm Uwe Kampen, Manfred Fischer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16949-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16948-4Published: 20 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35022-6Published: 12 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16949-1Published: 06 May 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 144
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy