The Autoimmune Connection: Essential Information for Women on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Getting On With Your Life (68 page)

Vaginal moisturizers,
188
,
191

Vagisil,
188

Vagisil Intimate Moisturizer,
191

Vasculitides,
379
,
380

Vasculitis,
30
,
379–87

cause,
380–81

diagnosis,
383–85

fertility,
387

menopause and beyond,
387

menstruation,
387

race and ethnicity,
381

symptoms,
381–83

treatment,
385–86

Vasotec (enalapril),
141

VDRL.
See
Venereal disease research laboratory test (VDRL)

Vectical (calcitriol),
155

Vedolizumab (Entyvio),
253

Velban (vinblastine),
373

Venereal disease research laboratory test (VDRL),
74
,
87

Venous thromboembolism (VTE),
349

Ventavis,
140

VEP test.
See
Visual evoked potential (VEP) test

Viagra,
140

Vinblastine (Velban),
373

Vincristine (Oncovin),
373

Visual evoked potential (VEP) test,
296
,
297

Vitamin B
₁₂
,
284

Vitamin B
₁₂
deficiency,
270

Vitamin D,
58
,
230
,
291
,
292

Vitiligo,
166–68

Vivelle,
404

Voltaren,
36

Voskuhl, Rhonda,
300
,
312
,
316

VTE.
See
Venous thromboembolism (VTE)

Vulvar vestibulitis,
420

Vulvodynia,
420

Warfarin (Coumadin),
80
,
111
,
358

Web sites and contact information,
465–75

Wegener’s granulomatosis,
383
.
See also
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA)

Wellbutrin (bupropion),
425

WHI.
See
Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)

White matter,
297

Widespread pain index (WPI),
422

Widow’s hump,
95

Wigs,
166

Wild yams,
54
,
361

Williams, Venus,
172
,
192

WinRho,
368
,
370
,
372
,
373

Women.
See
Patients

Women and vulnerability,
11–17

Women’s Health Initiative (WHI),
53
,
93
,
183
,
221

WPI.
See
Widespread pain index (WPI)

X chromosome,
12

X-rays

rheumatoid arthritis (RA),
34

scleroderma,
135–36

Xanthelasma,
408

Xanthoma,
408

Xarelto (Rivaroxaban),
358

Xeljanz (tofacitinib),
10
,
41
,
165
,
166
,
256

Xerostomia,
176

Xgeva,
95

Yams,
54
,
361

Yazici, Yusuf,
29
,
35

Yersinia,
26

Young, Joan,
362

Z-score (DEXA),
278

Zaleplon (Sonata),
342

Zanaflex (tizanidine),
308

Zantac,
140

Zenapax,
309

Zinc transporter 8 autoantibody (ZnT8Ab) assay,
202

Zoladex,
433

Zoledronic acid (Reclast),
58

Zolpidem (Ambien),
342

Rita Baron-Faust, MPH, CHES
, is an award-winning medical journalist and author of five books on women’s health, who has been a regular contributor to the
Rheumatology
Network.com
. She is an adjunct professor in the department of Biology and Health Promotion at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY, and serves as a national educator for the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association. During her career, Ms. Baron-Faust has been the recipient of more than two dozen awards for medical journalism.

Jill P. Buyon, MD
, is director of the Division of Rheumatology at the NYU School of Medicine/NYU Langone Medical Center, and the Lady Va and Sir Deryck Maughan Professor of Medicine. She is the founder and Director of the NYU Lupus Center at the NYU/Hospital for Joint Diseases. She has devoted her career to the study of Lupus with a focus on issues related to reproductive health. Her work has been supported by continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Buyon is Editor-In-Chief of the newly launched journal
Lupus Science & Medicine
and is an internationally-recognized researcher in the field of neonatal lupus.