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Preface
Contributors
1 Laboratory Evaluation of the Acutely Ill Patient 3
2 Infections in the Pharmacologically Immunosuppressed Host 27
3 Pharmacology and Acute Toxicity of Antirheumatic and Immunological Therapy 57
4 Fever in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases 125
5 Anaphylaxis and Angioedema: Treatment and Clues to Diagnosis 153
6 Acute Abdominal Emergencies in Patients with Rheumatic Disease 167
7 Acute Arthritis in the Hospitalized Patient 197
8 Life-Threatening Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia, Hemolytic Anemia, and Leukopenia 209
9 Noninfectious Complications of Bone Marrow Transplantation 239
10 Lupus Anticoagulant Syndromes 257
11 Recognition of Systemic Vasculitis in the Acutely Ill Patient 279
12 Vasculitis of the Central Nervous System 309
13 Acute Renal Failure as a Presenting Feature of Vasculitic Syndromes 329
14 Scleroderma Renal Crisis 353
15 End-Stage Renal Disease in Autoimmune Diseases 365
16 Severe Complications of Lyme Disease 401
17 Immune Alveolar Hemorrhage 427
18 Respiratory Insufficiency in Patients with Connective Tissue Disease 443
19 Coronary Vasculitis 459
20 Management of Critically Ill Patients with Myasthenia Gravis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and Inflammatory Myopathies 475
21 Cardiac Involvement in Rheumatic Disease 503
22 Use of Corticosteroids in the Acutely Ill Patient 527
23 Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy for the Critically Ill Rheumatic Disease Patient 541
24 Acute High-Dose Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy 559
25 Plasma Exchange as Acute Therapy for Inflammatory Disease 581
Index 611