Tracey A. Cho, MD

Director, Division of Neuroimmunology

Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

Simon Helfgott, MD

Director of Education & Fellowship Training

Division of Rheumatology

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Chief, Division of Spinal Cord Disorders

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Associate Neurologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA

Provides a comprehensive update on immune mediated disorders in the central nervous system

Captures related clinical advancements in neurology, rheumatology, oncology, and general internal medicine

Features sections on basic pathophysiology, guides by syndrome, and an overview of immunomodulatory therapies

The central and peripheral nervous system.- Inflammation in the nervous system.- Signs and symptoms of relevant rheumatological disorders.- Imaging.- Laboratory testing.- Electrophysiological studies.- Biopsy.- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.- Antiphospholipid and thrombotic microangiopathies.- Sjögren Syndrome.- Rheumatoid Arthritis.- Sarcoidosis.- Seronegative spondyloarthropathy.- IgG4-Related Disease.- Scleroderma.- Giant Cell Arteritis.- CNS vasculitis.- Neuro-Beh¿et Disease.- Autoinflammatory Diseases.- Ocular + Auditory Inflammatory Syndromes.- Paraneoplastic Syndromes.- Neuronal Surface Antibody-Mediated Autoimmune Encephalitis.- Hashimoto's encephalopathy/SREAT.- Celiac Disease.- Neuromyelitis Optica .- Multiple sclerosis and relation to systemic autoimmune disorders.- Stiff-person Syndrome.- Inflammatory myopathies.- Neuromuscular Junction Disorders.- Peripheral neuropathy in rheumatologic disorders, plexopathy.- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease.- Lyme Disease.- Complications related to pharmacotherapy.- Amyloidosis.- Clinical syndrome tables.- Differential diagnoses.- Corticosteroids.- Oral steroid-sparing agents.- Cyclophosphamide.- Biologics.- IVIG.- Plasmapheresis.