Matchless in reputation, content, and usefulness, Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology, 7th Edition, is a must-have for any physician caring for children with rheumatic diseases. Drs. Ross E. Petty, Ronald M. Laxer, Carol B. Lindsley, and Lucy Wedderburn, along with international experts in the field, provide an up-to-date, global perspective on every aspect of pediatric rheumatology, reflecting the changes in diagnosis, monitoring, and management that recent advances have made possible. The 7th Edition brings you completely up to date with the latest diagnostic perspectives and approaches to therapy, the globalization of pediatric rheumatology, and current hot topics in the field – all enhanced by a full-color design that facilitates a thorough understanding of the science that underlies rheumatic disease.
"The most comprehensive Pediatric Rheumatology textbook." Reviewed by The Egyptian Rheumatologist, Sep 2015
- Get an authoritative, balanced view of the field with a comprehensive and coherent review of both basic science and clinical practice.
- Apply the knowledge and experience of a who’s who of international experts in the field.
- Examine the full spectrum of rheumatologic diseases and non-rheumatologic musculoskeletal disorders in children and adolescents, including the presentation, differential diagnosis, course, management, and prognosis of every major condition.
- Diagnose and treat effectively through exhaustive reviews of the complex symptoms and signs and lab abnormalities that characterize these clinical disorders.
- Keep current with the latest information on small molecule treatment, biologics, biomarkers, epigenetics, biosimilars, and cell-based therapies.
- Increase your knowledge with three all-new chapters on laboratory investigations, CNS vasculitis, and other vasculitides.
- Understand the evolving globalization of pediatric rheumatology, especially as it is reflected in the diagnosis and management of childhood rheumatic diseases in the southern hemisphere.
- Choose treatment protocols based on the best scientific evidence available today.
Ross E. Petty is a Canadian pediatric rheumatologist. He is a professor emeritus in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia and a pediatric rheumatologist at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. He established Canada’s first formal pediatric rheumatology program at the University of Manitoba in 1976, and three years later, he founded a similar program at the University of British Columbia.
In 2006, he was appointed a member of the Order of Canada for his contribution within Canada and around the world to improving the lives of children and youth with rheumatic diseases. In 2012, he was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal. Petty has contributed more than 225 original research papers and book chapters in medical and scientific journals.
Dr. Ronald Laxer is an active staff physician in the Division of Rheumatology, and was an inaugural Division Head at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He is internationally recognized in the field of autoinflammatory disease and has been a part of genetic discoveries of several new autoinflammatory diseases. In addition to co-editing the Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology, he is a co-editor of the Textbook of Autoinflammation. His recent achievements include receiving the American College of Rheumatology Master Designation Award from the American College of Rheumatology and the CRA Master Award from the Canadian Rheumatology Association. In 2020, he was appointed to the Covid-19 Government of Canada Task Force addressing gaps related to care for children.
Lucy Wedderburn is Professor in Paediatric Rheumatology at UCL (Institute of Child Health), Director of Arthritis Research UK Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology at UCL, and UCL Hospitals/GOSH consultant. Her research interests are T cell immunology, immune regulation and muscle biology, with a major focus upon human T cell responses and immune regulation. In particular, the autoimmune conditions of childhood, including Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) and Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM); the mechanisms which allow survival and expansion of inflammatory T cells within the joint, the control of their production of cytokines and chemokines, and their contribution to disease. She trained in Cambridge and then London in Immunology and Rheumatology and then spent time training in science at the University of Stanford, USA, before returning to the University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital on a Wellcome Trust Fellowship.
