Antirheumatic Therapy: Actions and Outcomes
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Beschreibung
This book gives a comprehensive overview of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). The introductory general chapters deal with the chemistry of DMARDs, their use in therapy, pharmacoeconomics, and a survey of opinion leaders in the field; the following specific chapters characterize each agent with regard to mechanism of action, therapy, pharmacology, efficacy, toxicity, and monitoring. For each agent some background is given, recent developments and influence of the treatment on patients` quality of life and long-term outcomes are presented.
Comprehensive and well structured according to classes of agents Includes an outlook on future molecular targets International authorship
Autor*in
Richard O. Day
Themen in »Antirheumatic Therapy: Actions and Outcomes«
Arthritis autoimmune disease cell chemistry diseases economics medicinal chemistry pharmacology quality of life research rheumatism rheumatoid arthritis therapy toxicity transplantation