Covering all aspects of the many rheumatologic disorders associated with renal disease, including pathogenesis, clinical features and treatment, Rheumatology and the Kidney brings together the available information in an accessible and practical way, with a particular focus on evidence-based patient management. Part of the Oxford Clinical Nephrology Series, and featuring chapters from a team of international experts, this new edition has been completely updated since publication of the first edition in 2001 and now contains more tables and figures to make the information more accessible. Lupus nephritis 1. Venkat Reddy and David Isenberg: Clinical presentation and assessment of disease activity in lupus nephritis 2. David J. Cimbaulk and Melvin M. Schwatz: Lupus nephritis: Histopathology 3. Michael Robson: Lupus nephritis: Complement in lupus 4. N. Stanley Nahman, Jr. and Michael P. Madaio: Pathogenesis of lupus nephritis 5. Wai Y. Tse and Dwomoa Adu: Evidence-based treatment of lupus nephritis 6. Amara N. Ezeonyeji and David A. Isenberg: The role of biologicals in the treatment of lupus nephritis 7. Aisha Lateef and Michelle Petri: Systemic lupus erythematosus in pregnancy 8. Joyce Rauch and Jerrold S. Levine: Renal involvement in the antiphospholipid syndrome Vasculitis 9. J. Charles Jennette, Ronald J. Falk and Adil Hussein Gasim: Vasculitis classification 10. Andrew McLean and C.O.S. Savage: The immunopathogenesis of vasculitis 11. Franco Ferrario and Maria Pia Rastaldi: Pathology of vasculitis 12. Joanna C. Robson, Ravi Suppiah and Raashid A. Luqmani: Assessment of disease activity and damage in the ANCA associated systemic vasculitides 13. David Jayne: The clinical presentation and treatment of renal vasculitis 14. Loic Guillevin: Polyarteritis nodosa 15. Rosanna Coppo and Alessandro Amore: Henoch-Schoenlein purpura 16. Vivekanand Jha and Kirpal S. Chugh: Takayasu arteritis Systemic sclerosis 17. Voon H. Ong and Christopher P. Denton: Immunopathogenesis, clinical features and treatment of systemic sclerosis Amyloidosis 18. H.J. Lachmann and P.N. Hawkins: Immunopathogenesis and diganosis of amyloidosis 19. H.J. Lachmann and P.N. Hawkins: Rheumatic disease and amyloid: Clinical features and treatment 20. Robert A. Kyle: Primary amyloidosis 21. Pierre Ronco and Pierre Aucouturier: Light-chain and heavy-chain deposition diseases Virus associated disease 22. Edgar D. Charles: Hepatitis C virus-associated mixed cryoglobulinemia 23. Kar Neng Lai and Sydney C.W. Tang: Hepatitis B virus-associated renal diseases 24. Ulrich A. Walker: Rheumatic complications of HIV infection 25. Susan E. Collins and Paul Klotman: Renal complications of HIV infection Nephrotoxicity of drugs 26. Wai Y. Tse and Dwomoa Adu: NSAID's nephrotoxicity 27. Marc E. De Broe: Nephrotoxicity of drugs used in rheumatology: Analgesic nephropathy 28. Sarah Bingham and Paul Emery: Renal toxicity of anti-rheumatic drugs Other 29. Alan D. Salama and Charles D. Pusey: Rheumatologic diseases associated with interstitial nephritis 30. Philip Courtney and Michael Doherty: Management of gout in the patient with renal disease Rheumatological complications 31. Teresa K. Chen and Derek M. Fine: Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis 32. Sharmin Nizam, Zunaid Karim and Paul Emery: Rheumatological complications of renal disease and transplantation Dwomoa Adu is with the Renal Unit of Korle Bu Hospital Accra in Ghana. Paul Emery is Section of Musculoskeletal Disease at the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Leeds and the NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds, UK. Michael P. Madaio is with the Department of Medicine at Georgia Health Sciences University in Augusta, USA.