Abstract
Immunology is a very young discipline of medicine that permeates all medical disciplines. The topic is extremely serious and topical, so the book will find its target readers among general practitioners and specialists (especially the older generation, who practically did not learn about autoimmune diseases during their studies). ev. science.
The complex issue of autoimmunity is presented very clearly and comprehensibly, although partly in a simplified way. The popularizing nature of the book will certainly attract educated patients who suffer from autoimmunity, especially if recommended by the attending physician. / Due to the prevalence of autoimmune diseases - about 5% of the population, it is about half a million potential readers in the Czech Republic. adapted to Czech conditions by translating the book by prof.
Yehuda Shoenfeld AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES "THE ENEMY FROM WITHIN. At the request of Prof.
Shoenfeld, the leading expert on autoimmune diseases, the founder of Czech clinical immunology Prof. Terezie Fučíková and her disciple Prof.
Jiřina Bartůňková undertook the translation and editing. * * * It briefly describes the basic functions of the immune system and the circumstances that lead to why the initially beneficial immune response degenerates into self-damaging inflammation, which can cause chronic debilitating diseases, such as some autoimmune diseases. inappropriate to strengthen the "weakened immunity", which in fact begins to fail in the opposite direction - inappropriate reactions.It also provides an overview of individual representatives of a wide range of autoimmune diseases, which on the outside look like completely different diseases (eg multiple sclerosis, type I diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis). ...), but their pathogenesis, and therefore treatment, is very similar and. Separate chapters are devoted to both pathogenesis and treatment options for autoimmune diseases.
The book is supplemented by several summary tables, a color appendix with some typical clinical symptoms of autoimmune diseases, an index and links to other literature devoted to this issue, usually specialized more in individual diseases.