-Anesthetic Issues for Orthopedic Surgery in Patients with Rheumatoid Diseases -- Perioperative Pain Management and Orthopedic Surgery -- Autologous Blood Transfusion -- Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in the Patient with Rheumatic Diseases Undergoing Orthopedic Surgery -- Preoperative cardiovascular risk assessment -- Management of Medications in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases During the Perioperative Period -- Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases -- Perioperative Management of Antiphospholipid Antibody Positive Patients During Non-Cardiac Surgeries -- Perioperative Management of Anticoagulation in the Patient with the Antiphospholipid Syndrome in Cardiac Surgery and Cardiac Interventions -- Perioperative Management of the Patient with Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura de Novo, and the Thrombocytopenia of Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome -- Perioperative Management of the Patient with Pulmonary Hypertension -- Perioperative Management of the Neutropenic Rheumatologic Patient -- Perioperative Management of the Patient with Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypertension, or End-Stage Renal Disease -- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus -- Scleroderma and Raynaud Phenomenon -- Perioperative Management of the Patient with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy -- Perioperative Management of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis -- Perioperative Management of the Patient with Takayasus Arteritis -- Medical Issues in Osteoporotic Hip Fractures -- Total Joint Arthroplasty in the Patient with Connective Tissue Disease -- Postoperative Fever and Infection in Immunosuppressed Patients -- Diagnosis and Management of Prosthetic Joint Infection -- Perioperative Gout and Pseudogout -- Perioperative Myocardial Infarction -- Cervical Spine Stabilization -- Laminectomy -- Vertebral Augmentation -- Shoulder Arthroplasty - Jason D. Doppelt and Joseph P. Iannotti -- Carpal Tunnel Surgery -- Metacarpophalangeal Arthroplasty -- Total Hip Arthroplasty in Rheumatic Disease and Associated Inflammatory Arthropathies -- Total Knee Arthroplasty in Rheumatoid Disease and Other Associated Inflammatory Arthropathies -- Knee Arthroscopy -- Surgery for Avascular Necrosis of the Femoral Head -- Laparoscopic Splenectomy -- Lung Biopsy -- Renal Transplantation -- Lung Decortication -- Lung Transplantation -- Comanagement Models for the Patient with Joint Disease.