Oxford Textbook of Vasculitis

Prof Gene V. Ball, Jane Knight Lowe Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, Prof Barri J. Fessler, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, and Prof S. Louis Bridges, Jnr., Marguerite Jones Harbert-Gene V. Ball, MD Professor of Medicine; Professor of Microbiology; Director,, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

T. Prescott Atkinson
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Pediatrics, Birmingham AL, USA

Gülsevim Azizlerli
Istanbul University, Department of Dermatology, Turgut Ozal Cd, Capa, Istanbul, Turkey

Gene V. Ball
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Birmingham, AL, USA

Ricardo Blanco
Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Daniel Blockmans
University Hospital Gasthuisberg, General Internal Medicine, Leuven, Belgium

Jane C. Burns
Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Kawasaki Disease Research Center University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

S. Louis Bridges, Jr.
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Birmingham, AL, USA

Leonard H. Calabrese
Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Vice Chairman, Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, R. J. Fasenmyer Chair of Clinical Immunology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Sumapa Chaiamnuay
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

W. Winn Chatham
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Birmingham, USA

Sharon A. Chung
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Andrew Churg
Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Jeremy M. Clain
Mayo Clinic, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA

M. Kari Connolly
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

David P. D'Cruz
Lupus Research Unit, The Rayne Institute, St Thomas' Hospital London, London, UK

Elena Csernok
Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck and Klinikum Bad Bramstedt, Lübeck, Germany

Jan Damoiseaux
Laboratory of Clinical Immunology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

George F. Duna
Associate Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Chief of Rheumatology, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA


Nicole M. Fett
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Barri J. Fessler
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Jean-Noel Fiessinger
Centre de Référence des Maladies Vasculaires Rares et service de Médecine Vasculaire/HTA, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France. Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Lindy Fox
Assistant Professor of Clinical Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Michael Frank
Centre de Référence des Maladies Vasculaires Rares et service de Médecine Vasculaire/HTA, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

Stephen K. Frankel, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado and Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA

Izzet Fresko
Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Angelo Gaffo
Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Massimo Galli
Istituto di Malattie Infettive e Tropicali, Università di Milano, Ospedale Luigi Sacco, Milan, Italy

Miguel A. González-Gay
Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla IFIMAV, Santander, Spain

Wolfgang L. Gross
University of Lübeck, Department of Rheumatology, Vasculitis Center UKSH & Clinical Center Bad Bramstedt, Lübeck, Germany

Loïc Guillevin
Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, National Reference Center for Rare Autoimmune and Systemic Diseases, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, University of Paris, Paris, France

Anna Haemel
Assistant Professor of Clinical Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Rula A. Hajj-Ali
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Center for Vasculitis Care and Research, Cleveland Clinic, USA

Cees G.M. Kallenberg
University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands

Hideo Harigae
Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Gulen Hatemi
Associate professor, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Peter Heeringa
Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Bernhard Hellmich
Department of Rheumatology
University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck and Klinikum Bad Bramstedt, Luebeck, Germany

Julia U. Holle
Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck and Klinikum Bad Bramstedt, Luebeck, Germany

Konstanze Holl-Ulrich
University of Lübeck, Department of Pathology, Reference Center for Vasculitis Diagnosis UKSH, Lübeck, Germany

Laura B. Hughes
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Birmingham, AL, USA

Graham R. V. Hughes
London Lupus Centre, London Bridge Hospital, London, UK

K. Kwasind Huston
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Saint Luke's Physician Partners, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.


Tomohiro Ishii
Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Alisa. E. Koch
Professor of Rheumatology, University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

György Kerekes
Angiology and Intensive Care Unit, Institute of Medicine, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Sciences Center, Debrecen, Hungary

Munther A. Khamashta
Director, Lupus Research Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK

Yasushi Kobayashi
Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Peter Lamprecht
University of Lübeck, Department of Rheumatology, Vasculitis Center UKSH & Clinical Center Bad Bramstedt, Lübeck, Germany

Raashid Luqmani
NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Melike Melikoglu
Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Giuseppe Monti
Saronno Hospital, Saronno, Italy

Shin J. Oh
Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, UAB Station, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Rachel F. Oser
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Radiology, Birmingham, AL, USA

Ross E. Petty
Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, and
British Columbia's Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

Trinitario Pina
University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain

Gaafar Ragab
Cairo University, Mohandeseen, Giza, Egypt

Russell W. Read
Professor of Ophthalmology and Pathology, Director of Education and Residency Program Director, UAB Department of Ophthalmology; Director, Uveitis and Ocular Inflammatory Diseases Service, Chief of Ophthalmology, Cooper Green Mercy Medical Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Enrique A. Sabater
HIMA-San Pablo Bayamon Hospital, Head, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Bayamon, Puerto Rico

Francesco Saccardo
Rheumatology Unit, L.Sacco University Hospital of Milan, Milan, Italy

Kenneth E. Sack
Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA

Souheil Saddekni
Director, Interventional Oncology, Professor of Radiology and Medicine, Interventional Radiology Section, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Rifkiye Sarica-Kucukoglu
Department of Dermatology, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Susanne Schinke
Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck and Klinikum Bad Bramstedt, Lübeck, Germany

Marvin I. Schwarz
James C. Campbell Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA

David G. I. Scott
Department of Rheumatology, Norfolk and Norwich Health Care, NHS Trust, Norwich, UK

Emire Seyahi
Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Salvatore Sollima
Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Milan, L. Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy

Ulrich Specks
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Chair, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

Anthony W. Stanson
Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

John H. Stone
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director, Clinical Rheumatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Zoltán Szekanecz
Department of Rheumatology, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Sciences Center, Debrecen, Hungary

Gim Gee Teng
University Medicine Cluster, Division of Rheumatology, National University Health Sytem, Singapore; Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Benjamin Terrier
Department of Internal Medicine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert
Department of Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

J Sebastian Unizony, Rheumatology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

John E. Volanakis
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA


Kenneth J. Warrington, M.D.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic and College of Medicine, Rochester, MN; Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Richard A. Watts
Department of Rheumatology, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK

Victoria P. Werth
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Philadelphia, PA USA

Cornelia M. Weyand, M.D. Ph.D.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic and College of Medicine, Rochester, MN; Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Fredrick M. Wigley
Professor of Medicine, Associate Director, Division of Rheumatology; Director, Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Hasan Yazici
Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Vasculitis is a formidable reference work, a major contribution that challenges the specialist. Lavishly illustrated, including 125 color plates and innumerable graphs and tables, this is every immunologist's and rheumatologist's wish fulfillment. Half the chapters are written by physicians or researchers outside the United States, each well known and seminal in the field. As up to date as journals, this book provides a ready reference for all who deal with the array of disorders; it includes even the mimickers of vasculitis. It would be difficult to imagine a more comprehensive book. - JAMA

This is a most valuable book to have, certainly on the shelves of medical libraries, but also on the shelves of clinicians and researchers who deal with the diseases included here. It leads to precise means of diagnosis and points to current therapeutic measures. Its speculations on etiology are sound and should guide investigations. The arcane and inscrutable become understandable, and all the currently available treatments are amply described... It will be some time before the journals supersede the contents of this volume. - JAMA