Endocrinology

  Basic Information: Year: 2011 Page Number: 160 File Type: PDF File Size: 2.10 MB Authors/ Editiors: Daryl Meeking Description: Diabetes is a common and debilitating condition encountered by all doctors worldwide, regardless of specialist interest. This book aims to give the reader an understanding of the background, diagnosis, investigation and management of diabetes and endocrine disease. This book is set out in three main sections. The first gives a background understanding of diabetes and a review of glandular systems. The second outlines the disease problems and their investigation, including the specific...

  Basic Information: Year: 2015 Page Number: 434 File Type: PDF File Size: 3.94 MB Authors/ Editiors: Heidelbaugh MD Description: Clinics Collections: Type II Diabetes Mellitus draws from Elsevier’s robust Clinics Review Articles database to provide multidisciplinary teams, including general practitioners, endocrinologists, and other healthcare professionals, with practical clinical insights on the evaluation and management of patients with this disease and other co-morbidities. Clinics Collections: Type II Diabetes Mellitus guides readers on how to apply current primary research findings on type II diabetes to everyday practice to help overcome management challenges, keep up...

  Basic Information: Year: 2018 Page Number: 231 File Type: PDF File Size: 10.13 MB Authors/ Editiors: Hossein Gharib Description: Utilizing the most current evidence, this practical book is the first publication of its kind to focus exclusively on the clinical and laboratory evaluation and therapy of thyroid nodules, including advances in evaluation and controversies in management. Opening with chapters presenting the epidemiology, history, laboratory and clinical evaluation of thyroid nodules, the use of radioactive isotope ultrasound and CT scanning in diagnosis is then described. The interpretation of thyroid cytology following fine...

  Basic Information: Year: 2016 Page Number: 430 File Type: PDF File Size: 8.14 MB Authors/ Editiors: David S. Cooper Description: Comprised exclusively of clinical cases covering the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer and related clinical issues, this concise, practical casebook will provide clinicians in endocrinology and oncology with the best real-world strategies to properly manage the various forms of thyroid cancer that they may encounter. Each chapter is a case report, written by recognized experts, that opens with a unique clinical presentation, followed by a description of the diagnosis, assessment...

  Basic Information: Year: 2018 Page Number: 770 File Type: PDF File Size: 12.86 MB Authors/ Editiors: Paolo Vitti Description: This book presents the latest advances in knowledge of the pathogenesis of thyroid diseases and describes the state of the art in their diagnosis and treatment, including newly emerging management approaches. After an opening section that addresses thyroid physiology and laboratory evaluation, each of the major thyroid diseases and their subtypes is discussed, covering goiter and thyroid nodule, thyroiditis, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism and thyrotoxicosis, and thyroid carcinoma. Other conditions that affect thyroid function...

  Basic Information: Year: 2009 Page Number: 266 File Type: PDF File Size: 4.03 MB Authors/ Editiors: Giorgio Iervasi Description: Both thyroid dysfunction and heart failure show a high prevalence in the adult population. Frequently, in clinical practice, a multidisciplinary approach is useful to optimize the management of patients with these conditions. Although there is no doubt regarding the close link between cardiovascular pathophysiology and thyroid homeostasis, our understanding of this association is far from being exhaustive. Thyroid hormone regulates the expression of cardiac-specific functional contractile and structural proteins and plays a...

  Basic Information: Year: 2016 Page Number: 298 File Type: PDF File Size: 18.84 MB Authors/ Editiors: David J. Terris Description: Thyroid and Parathyroid Diseases, Second Edition, has been revised and updated to reflect recent advances in the medical and surgical management of thyroid and parathyroid diseases. This new edition serves as both a comprehensive guide to patient evaluation as well as an atlas of advanced surgical techniques for managing patients needing operative intervention. Separate chapters are devoted to minimally invasive techniques and remote access/robotic thyroidectomy techniques, both of which have enjoyed...

  Basic Information: Year: 2018 Page Number: 236 File Type: PDF File Size: 18.83 MB Authors/ Editiors: Syed Z. Ali Description: The first edition of The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology was published in 2010 and has greatly influenced the practice of thyroid cytopathology. The terminology proposed and illustrated in this text has been widely adopted not only in the U.S. but also abroad. It has become an essential text for pathology trainees and practicing pathologists examining thyroid fine needle aspiration (FNA) specimens. Since 2010, there have been a number of important...

  Basic Information: Year: 2009 Page Number: 522 File Type: PDF File Size: 11.02 MB Authors/ Editiors: Ajay K. Singh Description: The Textbook of Nephro-Endocrinology is the definitive translational reference in the field of nephro-endocrinology, investigating both the endocrine functions of the kidneys and how the kidney acts as a target for hormones from other organ systems. It offers researchers and clinicians expert, gold-standard analyses of nephro-endocrine research and translation into the treatment of diseases such as anemia, chronic kidney disease (CKD), rickets, osteoporosis, and, hypoparathyroidism. Clear translational presentations by the top endocrinologists...

  Basic Information: Year: 2008 Page Number: 544 File Type: PDF File Size: 10.00 MB Authors/ Editiors: Moshe Hod Description: Babies of women with diabetes are nearly five times more likely to be stillborn; are almost three times more likely to die in the first three months; and twice as many are born with major congenital malformations. The incidence is high―somewhere between 3 and 7 per cent of all pregnant women in the USA have diabetes―and rising; the condition is often complicated by other risk-factors such as obesity and heart disease. This...