Rheumatic Diseases and the Heart

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Rheumatic Fever

   • John A. Cosh, John V. Lever

   Pages 1-21

3. Rheumatic Heart Disease I

   • John A. Cosh, John V. Lever

   Pages 23-41

4. Rheumatic Heart Disease II

   • John A. Cosh, John V. Lever

   Pages 43-64

5. Infective Endocarditis

   • John A. Cosh, John V. Lever

   Pages 65-76

6. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Rheumatoid Heart Disease I: Pericarditis

   • John A. Cosh, John V. Lever

   Pages 77-104

7. Rheumatoid Heart Disease II: Valve Lesions, Heart Block, Juvenile Arthritis

   • John A. Cosh, John V. Lever

   Pages 105-132

8. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

   • John A. Cosh, John V. Lever

   Pages 133-164

9. Ankylosing Spondylitis and Reiter’s Disease

   • John A. Cosh, John V. Lever

   Pages 165-192

10. Systemic Sclerosis

    • John A. Cosh, John V. Lever

    Pages 193-215

11. Miscellaneous Conditions

    • John A. Cosh, John V. Lever

    Pages 217-243

12. Back Matter

    Pages 245-250

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What medicine lacks in an increasingly specialised world is the medical polymath (or should it be medical bimath?) - the man who is an acknowledged expert in more than one field of medicine. Super§pecialisation in the professional sense is an attempt to know more and more about less and less. It can be the microscopist's view of reality and such a microcosm can become also a refuge from realities. One reality difficult for the very specialised doctor to accept is that diseases don't exist. Only people with diseases exist and people do not always conform to convenient categories and compartments. It would be nice if they did but somehow they never do. A cherished medical tradition in Britain is that specialists are not hatched straight from medical schools. Indeed, young doctors are actively discouraged from taking too narrow an interest but are plunged for at least four years into the unspecific pool of general medicine until they have developed a broad awareness of the totality of human disease. Before this they are not allowed to narrow their sights on one particular target.

• Arthritis
• Arthropathie
• Spondylarthropathie
• anatomy
• arrhythmia
• differential diagnosis
• echocardiography
• electrocardiography
• electrophysiology
• embolism
• heart
• heart disease
• pathology
• rheumatic diseases
• rheumatoid arthritis

• Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK

  John A. Cosh, John V. Lever

• Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK

  John A. Cosh, John V. Lever

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