Main description:

The Digestive System in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Second Edition, represents the state-of-the-art in the field of digestive disorders in the most common systemic autoimmune diseases. This volume consists of an introductory chapter on imaging techniques in digestive diseases, followed by eight chapters on digestive manifestations in specific systemic autoimmune diseases. The final five chapters deal with digestive diseases with an autoimmune pathogenesis and systemic manifestations. International in scope, the table of contents reads like a Who's who in clinical research on systemic autoimmune diseases. More than 20 contributors from the European Union, the United States, Mexico, and South Africa share their knowledge in this detailed volume. The book provides an overview of our current understanding of digestive disorders in the most common systemic autoimmune diseases.

Contents:

Section I Introduction 1. Digestive System and Autoimmunity 2. Immunopathogenesis of Autoimmune Liver Damage 3. Autoantibodies in Gastrointestinal Autoimmune Diseases 4. Imaging Techniques in Digestive Diseases

Section II Autoimmune Liver Diseases 5. Primary Biliary Cholangitis 6. Autoimmune Hepatitis 7. Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

Section III Autoimmune Manifestations of Viral Hepatitis 8. Systemic and Autoimmune Manifestations of Hepatitis B Virus Infection 9. Extrahepatic Manifestations in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection 10. New Antivirals for Extrahepatic Manifestations of Hepatitis C Virus: The Model of Mixed Cryoglobulinemia Vasculitis

Section IV Gastrointestinal Involvement of Systemic Diseases 11. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus 12. Digestive Involvement in the Antiphospholipid Syndrome 13. Gastrointestinal Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis 14. Gastrointestinal Involvement in Inflammatory Myositis 15. Digestive Involvement in Primary Sjoegren's Syndrome 16. Gastrointestinal Involvement in Systemic Vasculitis 17. Mixed Connective Tissue Disease 18. Gastrointestinal Manifestations of Rheumatoid Arthritis 19. Spondyloarthritis and Gastrointestinal Involvement 20. Intestinal Behcet's Disease 21. Gastrointestinal Involvement of Sarcoidosis 22. IgG4-Related Disease: Gastrointestinal Involvement 23. Gastrointestinal Complications of Antirheumatic Drugs